RHEL7 provisioning on a VMWare virtual machine with 1024 MB of memory fails

  • KM01757193
  • 28-Jul-2015
  • 02-Apr-2021

Summary

Provisioning a RHEL7 on a VMWare virtual machine with 1024 MB of memory fails in step 10 with message: Step 10 of 21: Run Server Script 'Embed Monitoring SA Agent' Embed Monitoring SA Agent failed with exit code 247.

Question

Provisioning a RHEL7 on a VMWare virtual machine with 1024 MB of memory fails in step 10 with message:

Step 10 of 21: Run Server Script 'Embed Monitoring SA Agent'
Embed Monitoring SA Agent failed with exit code 247.

Answer

The real problem is not showed on the output error message, the root cause of the problem is that the memory is too low for the installation.

The default value from VMWare is 2GB. This being the recommended value from VMWare, so this is a VMWare requirement.

Increasing the virtual server memory to 2GB fix the problem.