Change ESX Service Console Memory

During default ESX installation, Service Console will be allocated 272MB of memory. We may need to change it. Following is the process of change the memory. After changing it needs rebbot to take effect.

1. First of all backup the file we are going to modify

# cp /etc/vmware/esx.conf /etc/vmware/esx.conf.bak

# cp /boot/grub/grub.conf /boot/grub/grub.conf.bak

2 . Now modify esx.conf and grub.conf

Edit /etc/vmware/esx.conf to change the number of 272 to 512

# vi /etc/vmware/esx.conf

Change /mem/bootsize to 512

save and quit

# vi /etc/grub/grub.conf

change to 512 and change uppermem 818176

Save and quit.

This will update your memory.