Elastic Search Error – max virtual memory areas vm.max_map_count [65530] is too low, increase to at least [262144]

Errors
[2]: max virtual memory areas vm.max_map_count [65530] is too low, increase to at least [262144]

Solution

To make it persistent, you can add this line:
$ sudo vi /etc/sysctl.conf
vm.max_map_count=262144

$ sudo sysctl -p
vm.max_map_count = 262144