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Figure 6-68 IMM System Health Summary
14.Power on the x3850 X5.
15.At the UEFI panel, press F1 for the UEFI menu.
16.Select System Settings ï‚® Memory and change the MAX5 Memory Scaling Affinity to
Non-Pooled, as shown in Figure 6-69.
Figure 6-69 UEFI setting for MAX5 Memory Scaling Affinity
17.Press Esc two times to go back to the Main page. Select Save Settings and press Enter
to save the UEFI settings.
18.Exit the UEFI and boot the system to ESX.
Figure 6-70 ESX 4.1 Installable NUMA error
If you see this error, follow these steps to change the boot code:
1. At the VMware bootloader panel, press a to modify the kernel arguments. Be sure that
VMware ESX 4.1 is highlighted, as shown in Figure 6-71 on page 285.
Important: If you do not select VMkernel.Boot.allowInterleavedNUMAnodes under
VMkernel, Figure 6-70 shows the error that will appear during boot.