XML document element count exceeds configured maximum 500000

[drapiti]

Please allow option to limit query size as we are experiencing the following error on large vcenters and it seems to be a common issue:

09:19:10: [api svvcmot20.xxx.xxxx.xxxx.xxxxx (id=6)] XML document element count exceeds configured maximum 500000
while parsing property "metricId" of static type ArrayOfPerfMetricId
while parsing serialized DataObject of type vim.PerformanceManager.QuerySpec
at line 2, column 16771626
while parsing call information for method QueryPerf
at line 2, column 115
while parsing SOAP body
at line 2, column 100
while parsing SOAP envelope
at line 2, column 0
while parsing HTTP request for method queryStats
on object of type vim.PerformanceManager
at line 1, column 0