Setup nested ESXi as below:
1. Physical host has 2 sockets, 8 cores/socket for a total of 32 logical processors and 64GB of RAM
2. Physical host runs ESXi 5.5.0.
3. Nested ESXi (as VM) runs ESXi 5.1.0 update 2 [followed the instructions in http://www.virtuallyghetto.com/2012/08/how-to-enable-nested-esxi-other.html ]
4. Nested ESXi is provisioned with 2 sockets, 4 cores/socket and 2 GB of vRAM
5. Created 10 linux VMs on the nested ESXi host (each with 1 vCPU + 48 MB vRAM)
6. When powering-on the 7th VM, below error message is seen
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Could not power on VM : @&!*@*@(msg.vmk.status.VMK_VCPU_LIMIT_EXCEEDED)Number of running VCPUs limit exceeded.
Max VMs limit reached: 6 (2048 worlds)
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I have looked at below discussions
https://communities.vmware.com/thread/425429
and
ESXi 5.1 - Failed to power on VM. Max VMs limit reached: 200.
Former thread suggests increasing vRAM as a solution. Tried doubling the vRAM from 2 GB to 4 GB and the same issue is hit when powering-up the 16th VM
Is 6 VMs (or 15 VMs with 4GB vRAM) the best I can provision in this setup? I need to keep the vRAM at 2GB so as to fit as many nested ESXi hosts on this server.
Please clarify.
