vSphere 5 – Maximums – Virtual Machine
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1 © Nokia Siemens Networks 2011 _Change_Document_Information“ macro. For internal use Unique document identifier (ID) / Version number / Life cycle status vSphere 5 – Maximums – Virtual Machine Comput e vCPUs per VM 32 Memory vRAM per VM 1TB Swap per VM 1TB Storage SCSI Adapt ors per VM 4 SCSI Targe ts per Adapt or 15 SCSI Targe ts per VM 60 Disk Size 2TB minu s 512B IDE Contr oller s per VM 1 IDE Devic es per VM 4 Flopp y Contr oller s per VM 1 Flopp y Disks per VM 2 Networ k vNICs per VM 10 Peripheral Ports Paral lel Ports per VM 3 Seria l Ports per VM 4 VMDirectPath PCI/ PCIe per VM 2 SCSI Targe ts per VM 60 Misc. Concu rrent Remot e Conso les 40
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vSphere 5 – Maximums – Virtual Machine. Compute. Memory. Storage. Network. Peripheral Ports. VMDirectPath. Misc. vCPUs per VM. vRAM per VM. Swap per VM. SCSI Adaptors per VM. SCSI Targets per Adaptor. SCSI Targets per VM. Disk Size. IDE Controllers per VM. IDE Devices per VM. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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vSphere 5 – Maximums – Virtual Machine
Compute
vCPUs per VM
32
Memory
vRAM per VM
1TB
Swap per VM
1TB
Storage
SCSI Adaptors per VM
4
SCSI Targets
per Adapto
r
15
SCSI Targets per VM
60
Disk Size
2TB minus 512B
IDE Controllers per
VM
1
IDE Devices per VM
4
Floppy Controllers per
VM
1
Floppy Disks
per VM
2
Network
vNICs per VM
10
Peripheral Ports
Parallel Ports
per VM
3
Serial Ports
per VM
4
VMDirectPath
PCI/ PCIe
per VM
2
SCSI Targets per VM
60
Misc.
Concurrent
Remote
Consoles
40
vSphere 5 – Maximums – ESXi Hosts
Compute
Logical CPUs
per Host
160
VMs per
Host
512
vCPUs per
Host
2048
vCPUs per
Core
25
Fault Tolerance
Virtual Disks
16
vCPUs
1
RAM per FT
VM
64GB
FT VMs per
Host
4
Memory
RAM per
Host
2TB
No. of swap files
1 per VM
Swap File Size
1TB
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vSphere 5 – Maximums – ESXi Hosts
Storage
iSCSI Physical
LUNs per server
256
iSCSI HBA initiator ports per Host
Qlogic 1Gb
4
Broadcom 1Gb
4
Broadcom 10Gb
4
NICs that can be associated or
port bound with the software
iSCSI stack per server
8
Number of total paths
on a server
1024
to a LUN (software iSCSI and hardware
iSCSI)
8
Qlogic iSCSI:
dynamic targets per adapter port
64
static targets per adapter port
62
Broadcom 1Gb iSCSI HBA targets per
adapter port
64
Broadcom 10Gb iSCSI HBA targets per
adapter port
128
Software iSCSI targets
256
vSphere 5 – Maximums – ESXi Hosts
Storage
Virtual Disks per
Host
2048
NAS
NFS Mounts per Host
256
Fiber Channel
LUNs per Host
256
LUN ID
255
Number of Paths to LUN
32
Number of total
paths on a server
1024
Number of HBAs of any type
8
HBA ports
16
Targets per HBA
256
FCoE
Software FCoE
Adapters
4
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vSphere 5 – Maximums – ESXi Hosts
Storage
VMFS
Volumes per Host
256
Hosts per
Volume
64
Powered-on VMs
per VMFS
Volume
2048
VMFS3
Volume Size
64TB
Raw device mapping size
(virtual compati
bility)
2TB minus 512
bytes
(physical
compatibility)
2TB minus 512
bytes6
Block size
8MB
File size
(1MB block size)
256GB
(2MB block size)
512GB
(4MB block size)
1TB
(8MB block size)
2TB minus 512
bytes
Files per
volume
Approximately 30,720
VMFS5
Volume size
64TB
Raw Device Mapping size
(virtual compati
bility)
2TB minus 512
bytes
(physical
compatibility)
64TB
Block size
File size
2TB minus 512
bytes
Files per
volume
Approximately 130,69
0
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1MB
vSphere 5 – Maximums – ESXi Hosts
Storage
Concurrent Operations
vMotions per Datastore
128
Storage vMotion
Per Datastore
8
Per Host
2
Non-vMotion provisioning Operations
8
Dept. / Author / Date
