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145 Cards in this Set
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Virtual CPUs per virtual machine (Virtual SMP)
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8
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RAM per virtual machine
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255 GB
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Virtual machine swap file size
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255 GB
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Virtual SCSI adapters per virtual machine
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4
Any combination of supported SCSI virtual storage controllers. Four Paravirtual SCSI adapters may be used only if the virtual machine boots from a device attached to an IDE controller, or from the network. |
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Virtual SCSI targets per virtual SCSI adapter
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15
Any combination of disk, CD‐ROM or VMDirectPath SCSI target. |
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Virtual SCSI targets per virtual machine
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60
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Disk size
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2TB minus 512B
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IDE controllers per virtual machine
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1
Supports two channels (primary and secondary) each with a master and slave device. |
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IDE devices per virtual machine
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4
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Floppy controllers per virtual machine
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1
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Floppy devices per virtual machine
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2
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Virtual NICs per virtual machine
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10
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USB controllers per virtual machine
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1
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USB devices connected to a virtual machine
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20
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Parallel ports per virtual machine
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3
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Serial ports per virtual machine
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4
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Concurrent remote console connections to a virtual machine
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40
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Logical CPUs per host
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128
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Virtual machines per host
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320
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Virtual CPUs per host
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512
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Virtual CPUs per core
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25
The achievable number of vCPUs per core depends on the workload and specifics of the hardware. For more information see the latest version of Performance Best Practices for VMware vSphere. |
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Fault Tolerance Maximums
Virtual disks |
16
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Fault Tolerance Maximums
Virtual CPUs per virtual machine |
1
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Fault Tolerance Maximums
RAM per FT VM (GB) |
64
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Fault Tolerance Maximums
Virtual machines per host |
4
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RAM per host
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1 TB
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Maximum RAM allocated to service console
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800 MB
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Minimum RAM allocated to service console
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272 MB
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Number of swap files
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1 per virtual machine
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Swap file size
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Same as maximum virtual machine RAM
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iSCSI Physical
LUNs per server |
256
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iSCSI Physical
Qlogic 1GB iSCSI HBA initiator ports per server |
4
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iSCSI Physical
Broadcom 1GB iSCSI HBA initiator ports per server |
4
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iSCSI Physical
Broadcom 10GB iSCSI HBA initiator ports per server |
4
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iSCSI Physical
NICs that can be associated or port bound with the software iSCSI stack per server |
8
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iSCSI Physical
Number of total paths on a server |
1024
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iSCSI Physical
Number of paths to a LUN (software iSCSI and hardware iSCSI) |
8
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iSCSI Physical
Qlogic iSCSI: dynamic targets per adapter port |
64
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iSCSI Physical
Qlogic iSCSI: static targets per adapter port |
62
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iSCSI Physical
Broadcom 1GB iSCSI HBA targets |
64
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iSCSI Physical
Broadcom 10GB iSCSI HBA targets |
64
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iSCSI Physical
Software iSCSI targets |
256
The sum of static targets (manually assigned IP addresses) and dynamic targets (IP addresses assigned to discovered targets) may not exceed this number. |
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NFS mounts per host
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64
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FC: LUNs per host
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256
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FC: LUN size
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2 TB
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FC: LUN ID
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255
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FC: LUNs concurrently opened by all virtual machines
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256
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FC: Number of paths to a LUN
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32
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FC: Number of total paths on a server
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1024
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FC: Number of HBAs of any type
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8
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FC: HBA ports
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16
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FC: Targets per HBA
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256
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VMFS: Raw device mapping (RDM) size
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2TB minus 512B
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VMFS: Volume size
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64TB
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VMFS: Volumes per host
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256
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VMFS: Hosts per volume
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64
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VMFS-3: Block size
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8MB
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VMFS-3: File size (1MB block size)
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256 GB
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VMFS-3: File size (2MB block size)
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512 GB
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VMFS-3: File size (4MB block size)
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1 TB
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VMFS-3: File size (8MB block size)
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2TB - 512B
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VMFS-3: Files per volume
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~ 30,720
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e1000 1GB Ethernet ports (Intel PCI‐x)
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32
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e1000e 1GB Ethernet ports (Intel PCI‐e)
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24
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igb 1GB Ethernet ports (Intel)
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16
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tg3 1GB Ethernet ports (Broadcom)
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32
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bnx2 1GB Ethernet ports (Broadcom)
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16
Recommended number of ports for bnx2 when in MSI‐X mode and jumbo configuration is 6. This value takes precedence over recommendations in KB 1020808 for this configuration. |
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forcedeth 1GB Ethernet ports (NVIDIA)
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2
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s2io 10GB Ethernet ports (Neterion)
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4
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nx_nic 10GB Ethernet ports (NetXen)
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4
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ixgbe Oplin 10GB Ethernet ports (Intel)
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4
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bnx2x 10GB Ethernet ports (Broadcom)
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4
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Infiniband ports (refer to VMware Community Support)
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N/A
Mellanox Technologies InfiniBand HCA device drivers are available directly from Mellanox Technologies. Refer to Mellanox for support status of InfiniBand HCAs with ESX. http://www.mellanox.com |
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VMDirectPath PCI/PCIe devices per host
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8
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VMDirectPath PCI/PCIe devices per virtual machine
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4
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Total virtual network switch ports per host (vDS and vSS ports)
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4096
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Maximum ACTIVE ports per host (vDS and VSS)
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1016
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Virtual network switch creation ports per standard switch
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4088
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Port groups per standard switch
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512
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Static or Dynamic Port groups per distributed switch
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5000
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Ephemeral Port groups per distributed switch
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1016
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Ports per distributed switch
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2000
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Distributed virtual network switch ports per vCenter
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20,000
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Static or Dynamic Port groups per vCenter
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5000
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Ephemeral Port groups per vCenter
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1016
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Distributed switches per vCenter
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32
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Distributed switches per Host
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16
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Hosts per distributed switch
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350
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Hosts per cluster (ha and drs)
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32
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Virtual machines per cluster
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3000
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cluster: Virtual machines per host
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320
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cluster: Maximum concurrent host HA failover
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4
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cluster: Failover as percentage of cluster
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50%
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cluster: Resource pools per cluster
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512
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Resource pool tree depth
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8
Additional 4 resource pools are used by system internals |
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Resource pools per host
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4096
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Children per resource pool
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1024
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Hosts per vCenter Server
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1000
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Powered on virtual machines per vCenter Server
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10,000
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Registered virtual machines per vCenter Server
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15,000
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Linked vCenter Servers
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10
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Hosts in linked vCenter Servers
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3000
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Powered on virtual machine in linked vCenter Servers
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30,000
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Registered virtual machine in linked vCenter Servers
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50,000
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Concurrent vSphere Clients
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100
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Number of host per datacenter
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400
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Concurrent provisioning operations per host
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4
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Concurrent provisioning operations per datastore
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4
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Concurrent vMotion operations per host (1GB/s network)
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4
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Concurrent vMotion operations per host (10GB/s network)
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8
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Concurrent vMotion operations per VMFS3 datastore
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128
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Concurrent Storage vMotion operations per host
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2
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Concurrent Storage vMotion operations per datastore
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8
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vcenter update manager: Host scans in a single vCenter Server
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1000
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vcenter update manager: Virtual machine scans in a single vCenter Server
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10,000
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vcenter update manager: Cisco VDS update and deployment
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70
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concurrent opreations: Virtual machine remediation per ESX host
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5
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concurrent: Powered‐on Windows virtual machine scans per ESX host
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5
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concurrent: Powered‐on Linux virtual machine scans per ESX host
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2
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VMware Tools scan per ESX host
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24
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VMware Tools upgrade per ESX host
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24
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Virtual machine hardware scan per host
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24
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Virtual machine hardware upgrade per host
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24
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Virtual machine remediation per VUM server
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48
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Powered‐on Windows virtual machine scan per VUM server
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17
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Powered‐off Windows virtual machine scan per VUM server
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10
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Powered‐on Linux virtual machine scan VUM server
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8
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VMware Tools scan per VUM server
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75
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VMware Tools upgrade per VUM server
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75
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Virtual machine hardware scan per VUM server
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75
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Virtual machine hardware upgrade per VUM server
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75
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ESX host scan per VUM server
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70
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ESX host remediation per VUM server
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8
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ESX host upgrade per VUM server
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44
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ESX host upgrade per cluster
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1
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orchestrator: Connected vCenter Server systems
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10
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orchestrator: Connected ESX/ESXi instances
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100
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orchestrator: Connected virtual machines
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15,000
Virtual machines spread across 10 vCenter Servers |
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orchestrator: Concurrent running workflows
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150
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converter: Concurrent virtual machine to virtual machine import or export tasks
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8
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converter: Concurrent physical machine to virtual machine import or export tasks
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20
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smi-s: Number of vCenter Server systems connected
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1
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smi-s: Number of ESX/ESXi hosts connected
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1000
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smi-s: Number of ESX/ESXi hosts managed by vCenter Server
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320
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smi-s: Number of virtual machines registered in vCenter Server
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15,000
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