This issue may occur because it is necessary that the ESXi host and the virtual machine both use hardware assisted memory virtualization features to obtain optimal memory performance in a virtual machine.
Resolution
To resolve this issue, verify that:
The CPU on ESXi host supports Intel Extended Page Tables (EPT) or AMD Rapid Virtualization Indexing (RVI) hardware virtualization.
The virtual machine settings are configured to use hardware memory management unit (MMU).
Confirm that hardware MMU is in use by checking the /vmfs/volumes/datastore/virtual_machine/vmware.log for one of these messages: