diff --git a/images/capi/ansible/roles/providers/files/etc/vmware-tools/tools.conf b/images/capi/ansible/roles/providers/files/etc/vmware-tools/tools.conf
index f2b63ed49f..1bc61fc198 100644
--- a/images/capi/ansible/roles/providers/files/etc/vmware-tools/tools.conf
+++ b/images/capi/ansible/roles/providers/files/etc/vmware-tools/tools.conf
@@ -1,3 +1,21 @@
+[logging]
+## Disables core dumps on fatal errors; they're enabled by default.
+enableCoreDump = false
+## Setup file rotation - keep 3 files
+vmsvc.maxOldLogFiles = 3
+## Max log file size kept: 1 MB
+vmsvc.maxLogSize = 1
+
 [guestinfo]
-exclude-nics=antrea-*,cali*,cilium*,lxc*,ovs-system,br*,flannel*,veth*,vxlan_sys_*,genev_sys_*,gre_sys_*,stt_sys_*,????????-??????
+## This configuration ensures that any address in the interfaces matching en* is sorted on top of the list of IP addresses.
+primary-nics=en*
+
+## The configuration will exclude all interfaces with the names matching the patterns specified from GuestInfo.
+exclude-nics=antrea-*,br*,cali*,cbr*,cilium*,cni*,docker*,dummy*,flannel*,genev_sys_*,gre_sys_*,kube-ipvs*,lo,lxc*,nodelocaldns*,ovs-system,stt_sys_*,tunl*,veth*,virbr*,vxlan_sys_*,wg*,????????-??????
+
+## https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/commit/065f09b94e09f1127901db29e73cc9b9f36df4fc
+# max-ipv4-routes: Max IPv4 routes to gather. Set 0 to disable gathering.
+# max-ipv6-routes: Max IPv6 routes to gather. Set 0 to disable gathering.
+max-ipv4-routes=0
+max-ipv6-routes=0