Installation guide

CHAPTER 3 Using the VMware Management Interface to Manage Your Virtual Machines
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Avoiding Management Interface Failures when Many Virtual
Machines Are Registered
If you have a very large number of virtual machines registered on a single ESX Server
machine, the VMware Management Interface may shut down and a Panic out of
memory message may be recorded in /usr/lib/vmware-mui/apache/
logs/error_log.
By default, the Apache Web server uses 24MB of memory to store information about
the virtual machines on the server. The errors described above can happen when this
memory is not adequate for the number of virtual machines.
To work around the problem, open the file /etc/vmware/config in a text editor
and find the line that begins with mui.vmdb.shmSize =. Increase the number in
quotation marks, which is specified in bytes of memory. Then restart the Apache
server with the following command:
/etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd.vmware restart