Knowledge Base

ESX Server 3.5 Hosts

1. Increase the maximum vCPU limit to 192:
   1. In VMware Infrastructure (VI) Client, select the ESX host.
   2. Click the Configuration tab and select Advanced Settings.
   3. In the Advanced Settings window, select the Misc menu, and change Misc.RunningVCpuLimit to 192.
2. Include or edit the host agent memory configuration values:
   1. Login to the ESX host as user root using an SSH client.
   2. Make a backup copy of the host agent configuration file /etc/vmware/hostd/config.xml.
      This backup copy can be placed in the / directory.
   3. Edit the /etc/vmware/hostd/config.xml file.
   4. Within the <config> and </config> tags, include or edit the following values:
      <hostdStopMemInMB>380</hostdStopMemInMB>
      <hostdWarnMemInMB>300</hostdWarnMemInMB>
   5. Save the file and exit.
   For the new values to take effect immediately, restart the ESX Server Management service.
   For more information, see Restarting the Management agents on an ESX or ESXi Server (1003490).
   Note: If you are going to change the Service Console memory value as described in the next step, reboot of the ESX Server host will restart the ESX Server Management service.
3. Increase the Service Console memory value to 512 MB:
   1. In VI Client, select the ESX host.
   2. Click the Configuration tab and select Memory.
   3. Click Properties, and in the Memory window, change the value for Service Console to 512.
   4. Reboot the ESX host for the new value to take effect.
      For more information, see Increasing the amount of RAM assigned to the ESX Server service console (1003501) and Rebooting an ESX Server host (1003530)

1. Increase the maximum vCPU limit to 192:
   1. In VI Client, select the ESXi host.
   2. Click the Configuration tab and select Advanced Settings.
   3. In the Advanced Settings window, select the Misc menu, and change Misc.RunningVCpuLimit to 192.
2. Increase the memory resource reservation of the vim resource pool to 1024 MB:
   1. In VI Client, select the ESXi host.
   2. Click the Configuration tab and select System Resource Allocation.
   3. Click Advanced, and select vim from the System Resource Pools list.
   4. Click Edit Settings.
   5. In the Edit vim Resource Allocation window, change the value for Memory Resources Reservation to 1024.
3. Include or edit the host agent memory configuration values:
   1. Login to the ESXi host using Tech Support Mode as detailed in Tech Support Mode for Emergency Support (1003677)
   2. Make a backup copy of the host agent configuration file /etc/vmware/hostd/config.xml.
      This backup copy can be placed in the / directory.
   3. Edit /etc/vmware/hostd/config.xml file.
   4. Within the <config> and </config> tags, include/edit the following values:
      <hostdStopMemInMB>380</hostdStopMemInMB>
      <hostdWarnMemInMB>300</hostdWarnMemInMB>
   5. Save the file and exit.
   6. Exit Tech Support Mode
   7. For the changes to take effect, restart the Management Agents on ESX Server 3i as described in Restarting the Management agents on an ESX or ESXi Server (1003490)