EVE-NG (Community Edition) w/ Large Number of Interfaces? (eve-ng or vmware issue?)

I'm working on a setup with the eve-ng community edition, where I have 24 nodes, but I have approximately 110 Interfaces (43 point-to-point links between nodes, 12 links from nodes to a network shared to the outside) in the topology. Upon starting up the nodes, I'm unable to reach the console of my nodes, and on the eve-ng host in the vmware-vmsvc.log I'm seeing a bunch of messages:

[May 01 01:25:01.012] [ message] [vmsvc] GuestInfoAddNicEntry: NIC limit (64) reached, skipping overflow.

[May 01 01:25:01.012] [ message] [vmsvc] GuestInfoAddNicEntry: NIC limit (64) reached, skipping overflow.

[May 01 01:25:01.012] [ message] [vmsvc] GuestInfoAddNicEntry: NIC limit (64) reached, skipping overflow.

[May 01 01:25:01.012] [ message] [vmsvc] GuestInfoAddNicEntry: NIC limit (64) reached, skipping overflow.

[May 01 01:25:01.012] [ message] [vmsvc] GuestInfoAddNicEntry: NIC limit (64) reached, skipping overflow.

[May 01 01:25:01.012] [ message] [vmsvc] GuestInfoAddNicEntry: NIC limit (64) reached, skipping overflow.

[May 01 01:25:01.013] [ message] [vmsvc] GuestInfoAddNicEntry: NIC limit (64) reached, skipping overflow.

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I understand that the Community Edition has a support maximum of 63 nodes, so I'm not hitting that. But am I hitting some other limit, or a limit on the number of interfaces based on the fact that I'm running this on vmware? Note, only 12 of the interfaces go to a network that is extended to the vmware host (eth2), the rest are point-to-point links connecting nodes.

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Any thoughts/advice is much appreciated.

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Thank you