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vSphere: NUMA 706: Can’t boot system as genuine NUMA

Posted on August 17, 2010 Updated on September 10, 2010

If you install vSphere on NON-NUMA hardware the following warning message will be displayed on the Service Console splash screen

cpu0:0)NUMA: 706: Can’t boot system as genuine NUMA. Booting with 1 fake node(s)

To resolve the warning message uncheck the option setting vmkernel.boot.usenumainfo