Limited resources of memory VM even if I have a spare physical memory...

I'm currently under ESXi 4 server only allowed for 1 physical processor.  I use the vSphere 4.0 client to manage it.  I have a VM installed, started off the coast with a 3 GHz Pentium D CPU dual core and 2 GB RAM.  Then I upgraded the RAM to 4 GB and everything was fine, the host sees the 4 GB and really shows the ability of the host 4091,61 MB memory as well as the capacity of the processor 2 x 2.992 GHz.  The problem is that when I go in my VM current (1) and try to adjust the allocation of resources by clicking the tab for the allocation of resources to this virtual machine and then click on the link edit in the lower-right corner of the box of memories that I get booking 2044 MB of RAM and that is where the small triangle as well which is the "limit based on the parent resource pool or. current host.  I have the limit of the value "Unlimited."  I know I should be more available because I assigned only 300 MHz processor and 512 MB of RAM to the system, so I'm missing about 1.5 GB or RAM to allocate to the virtual machine.  Why doesn't it let me go up to 3.5 GB or memory to reserve?

The above is my main problem because I am in more desperate need of memory on this virtual machine, but the other problem is that I am limited to allocation 4636 MHz of CPU to this virtual machine when I 5700 MHz available return.  Also running in the "limit the pool of resource parent or current host-based" in that regard.  Other that what I'm fairly new to VMWare stuff so please be as detailed as possible explaining what I am doing wrong.

Thank you very much in advance for your help!

First reserve has nothing to do with the allocation of resources. A reservation only guarantees that some physical memory / time CPU will be allocated for particulare VM when multiple virtual machines are fighting for resources (i.e. host CPU / memory load = 100%). In the case of 1 VMS on host booking resource is meaningless - this VM will always get all the resources.

ESXi 4 requires 2 GB of memory for himself only, so if you are unable to install more memory modules then you should consider demotion to ESXi 3.5 - it is much less memory consumption.

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