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[1]: max virtual memory areas vm.max_map_count [65530] is too low, increase to at least [262144]
you need to increase the value not on the guest, but on the host server, as the guest has no access to kernel variables.

Append
vm.max_map_count = 262144
in /etc/sysctl.conf

too many open files:

Increase ulimits -Hn and ulimits -Sn to more than 200000
and restart elasticearch