VMware ESX will only support up to 64 Gbytes per X8440 Server Module. However, the X8440 Server Module can support up to 128 Gbytes.
When editing the properties of a virtual switch, or adding a NIC to a virtual switch, an error pop-up might be displayed. The text of the error pop-up is as follows:
If more than 64 Gbytes is installed, VMware ESX will fail to boot properly, and will fall back to Service-Console-only mode. This failure can be identified by a message
in /var/log/dmesg
.
Example failure message:TSC: 3787907137 cpu0:0)ALERT: MemMap: EarlyInit:1535: No pages allocated to Node 2 -- big mismatch between BIOS and SRAT memory
maps, or MTTR error, or user removed all memory from a node.
Impacted OS: VMware ESX Server 3.0.1 and later
Impacted Hardware: X8440 Server Module