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Virtual Machine Maximums - Compute
-------------------------------------- Virtual CPUs per VM (Virtual SMP) |
8
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Virtual Machine Maximums - Memory
-------------------------------------- RAM per VM |
255GB
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Virtual Machine Maximums - Memory
-------------------------------------- VM swapfile size |
255GB
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Virtual Machine Maximums - Storage Virtual Adapters and Devices
-------------------------------------- Virtual SCSI adapters per VM |
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 Machine Maximums - Storage Virtual Adapters and Devices
-------------------------------------- Virtual SCSI targets per SCSI adapter |
15
(Any combination of disk, CD‐ROM or VMDirectPath SCSI target) |
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Virtual Machine Maximums - Storage Virtual Adapters and Devices
-------------------------------------- Virtual SCSI targets per VM |
60
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Virtual Machine Maximums - Storage Virtual Adapters and Devices
-------------------------------------- Disk size |
2TB - 512 bytes
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Virtual Machine Maximums - Storage Virtual Adapters and Devices
-------------------------------------- IDE controllers per VM |
1
(Supports two channels (primary and secondary) each with a master and slave device) |
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Virtual Machine Maximums - Storage Virtual Adapters and Devices
-------------------------------------- IDE devices per VM |
4
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Virtual Machine Maximums - Storage Virtual Adapters and Devices
-------------------------------------- Floppy controllers per VM |
1
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Virtual Machine Maximums - Storage Virtual Adapters and Devices
-------------------------------------- Floppy devices per VM |
2
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Virtual Machine Maximums - Networking Virtual Devices
-------------------------------------- Virtual NICs per VM |
10
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Virtual Machine Maximums - Virtual Peripheral Ports
-------------------------------------- USB controllers per VM |
1
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Virtual Machine Maximums - Virtual Peripheral Ports
-------------------------------------- USB devices connected to a VM |
20
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Virtual Machine Maximums - Virtual Peripheral Ports
-------------------------------------- Parallel ports per VM |
3
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Virtual Machine Maximums - Virtual Peripheral Ports
-------------------------------------- Serial ports per VM |
4
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Virtual Machine Maximums - Miscellaneous
-------------------------------------- Concurrent remote console connections to a VM |
40
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ESX Host Maximums - Host CPU maximums
----------------------------- Logical CPUs per host |
128
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ESX Host Maximums - Virtual machine maximums
----------------------------- VMs per host |
320
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ESX Host Maximums - Virtual machine maximums
----------------------------- Virtual CPUs per host |
512
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ESX Host Maximums - Virtual machine maximums
------------------------------- Virtual CPUs per core |
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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ESX Host Maximums - FT Maximums
----------------------------- Virtual disks |
16
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ESX Host Maximums - FT Maximums
----------------------------- Virtual CPUs per VM |
1
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ESX Host Maximums - FT Maximums
----------------------------- RAM per FT VM (GB) |
64
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ESX Host Maximums - FT Maximums
----------------------------- VMs per host |
4
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ESX Host Maximums - Memory Maximums
----------------------------- RAM per host |
1TB
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ESX Host Maximums - Memory Maximums
----------------------------- Maximum RAM allocated to service console |
800MB
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ESX Host Maximums - Memory Maximums
----------------------------- Minimum RAM allocated to service console |
272MB
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ESX Host Maximums - Memory Maximums
----------------------------- Number of swap files |
1 per VM
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ESX Host Maximums - Memory Maximums
----------------------------- Swap file size |
Same as maximum VM RAM (currently 255GB)
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ESX Host Maximums - Storage Maximums - iSCSI
----------------------------- LUNs per server |
256
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ESX Host Maximums - Storage Maximums - iSCSI
----------------------------- Broadcom 10Gb iSCSI HBA targets |
64
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ESX Host Maximums - Storage Maximums - iSCSI
----------------------------- 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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ESX Host Maximums - Storage Maximums - iSCSI
----------------------------- Qlogic 1Gb iSCSI HBS initiator ports per server |
4
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ESX Host Maximums - Storage Maximums - iSCSI
----------------------------- Broadcom 1Gb iSCSI HBS initiator ports per server |
4
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ESX Host Maximums - Storage Maximums - iSCSI
----------------------------- Broadcom 10Gb iSCSI HBS initiator ports per server |
4
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ESX Host Maximums - Storage Maximums - iSCSI
----------------------------- NICs that can be associated or port bound with the software iSCSI stack per server |
8
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ESX Host Maximums - Storage Maximums - iSCSI
----------------------------- Number of total paths per server |
1024
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ESX Host Maximums - Storage Maximums - iSCSI
----------------------------- Number of paths to a LUN (software iSCSI and hardware iSCSI) |
8
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ESX Host Maximums - Storage Maximums - iSCSI
----------------------------- Qlogic iSCSI: dynamic targets per adapter port |
64
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ESX Host Maximums - Storage Maximums - iSCSI
----------------------------- Qlogic iSCSI: static targets per adapter port |
62
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ESX Host Maximums - Storage Maximums - iSCSI
----------------------------- Broadcom 1Gb iSCSI HBA targets |
64
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ESX Host Maximums - Storage Maximums - NAS
----------------------------- NFS mounts per host |
64
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ESX Host Maximums - Storage Maximums - Fibre Channel
----------------------------- LUNs per host |
256
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ESX Host Maximums - Storage Maximums - Fibre Channel
----------------------------- LUN size |
2TB - 512 bytes
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ESX Host Maximums - Storage Maximums - Fibre Channel
----------------------------- LUN ID |
255
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ESX Host Maximums - Storage Maximums - Fibre Channel
----------------------------- LUNs concurrently opened by all VMs |
256
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ESX Host Maximums - Storage Maximums - Fibre Channel
----------------------------- Number of paths to a LUN |
32
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ESX Host Maximums - Storage Maximums - Fibre Channel
----------------------------- Number of total paths on a server |
1024
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ESX Host Maximums - Storage Maximums - Fibre Channel
----------------------------- Number of HBAs of any type |
8
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ESX Host Maximums - Storage Maximums - Fibre Channel
----------------------------- HBA ports |
16
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ESX Host Maximums - Storage Maximums - Fibre Channel
----------------------------- Targets per HBA |
256
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ESX Host Maximums - Storage Maximums - VMFS
----------------------------- Raw device mapping (RDM) size |
2TB minus 512 bytes
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ESX Host Maximums - Storage Maximums - VMFS
----------------------------- Volume Size |
64TB
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ESX Host Maximums - Storage Maximums - VMFS
----------------------------- Volumes per host |
256
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ESX Host Maximums - Storage Maximums - VMFS
----------------------------- Hosts per volume |
64
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ESX Host Maximums - Storage Maximums - VMFS-3
----------------------------- Block size |
8MB
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ESX Host Maximums - Storage Maximums - VMFS-3
----------------------------- File size (1MB block size) |
256GB
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ESX Host Maximums - Storage Maximums - VMFS-3
----------------------------- File size (2MB block size) |
512GB
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ESX Host Maximums - Storage Maximums - VMFS-3
----------------------------- File size (4MB block size) |
1TB
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ESX Host Maximums - Storage Maximums - VMFS-3
----------------------------- File size (8MB block size) |
2TB - 512 bytes
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ESX Host Maximums - Storage Maximums - VMFS-3
----------------------------- Files per volume |
Approx 30,720
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ESX Host Maximums - Networking Maximums - Physical NICs
----------------------------- e1000 1GB Ethernet ports (Intel PCI-x) |
32
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ESX Host Maximums - Networking Maximums - Physical NICs
----------------------------- e1000e 1GB Ethernet ports (Intel PCI-e) |
24
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ESX Host Maximums - Networking Maximums - Physical NICs
----------------------------- igb 1GB Ethernet ports (Intel) |
16
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ESX Host Maximums - Networking Maximums - Physical NICs
----------------------------- tg3 1GB Ethernet ports (Broadcom) |
32
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ESX Host Maximums - Networking Maximums - Physical NICs
----------------------------- bnx2 1GB Ethernet ports (Broadcom) |
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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ESX Host Maximums - Networking Maximums - Physical NICs
----------------------------- forcedeth 1GB Ethernet ports (NVIDIA) |
2
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ESX Host Maximums - Networking Maximums - Physical NICs
----------------------------- s2io 10GB Ethernet ports (Neterion) |
4
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ESX Host Maximums - Networking Maximums - Physical NICs
----------------------------- nx_nic 10GB Ethernet ports |
4
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ESX Host Maximums - Networking Maximums - Physical NICs
----------------------------- ixgbe Oplin 10GB Ethernet ports (intel) |
4
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ESX Host Maximums - Networking Maximums - Physical NICs
----------------------------- bnx2x 10GB Ethernet ports (Broadcom) |
4
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ESX Host Maximums - Networking Maximums - Physical NICs
----------------------------- Infiniband ports (refer to VMware Community Support) |
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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ESX Host Maximums - Networking Maximums - VMDirectPath limits
----------------------------- VMDirectPath PCI/PCIe devices per host |
8
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ESX Host Maximums - Networking Maximums - VMDirectPath limits
----------------------------- VMDirectPath PCI/PCIe devices per VM |
4
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ESX Host Maximums - Networking Maximums - vNetwork Standard & Distributed switches
----------------------------- Total virtual network switch ports per host (vDS & vSS ports) |
4096
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ESX Host Maximums - Networking Maximums - vNetwork Standard & Distributed switches
----------------------------- Maximum ACTIVE ports per host (vDS & vSS) |
1016
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ESX Host Maximums - Networking Maximums - vNetwork Standard & Distributed switches
----------------------------- Virtual network switch creation ports per standard switch |
4088
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ESX Host Maximums - Networking Maximums - vNetwork Standard & Distributed switches
----------------------------- Port groups per standard switch |
512
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ESX Host Maximums - Networking Maximums - vNetwork Standard & Distributed switches
----------------------------- Static or Dynamic port groups per distributed switch |
5000
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ESX Host Maximums - Networking Maximums - vNetwork Standard & Distributed switches
----------------------------- Ephemeral Port groups per distributed switch |
1016
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ESX Host Maximums - Networking Maximums - vNetwork Standard & Distributed switches
----------------------------- Ports per distributed switch |
20000
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ESX Host Maximums - Networking Maximums - vNetwork Standard & Distributed switches
----------------------------- Distributed virtual network switch ports per vCenter |
20000
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ESX Host Maximums - Networking Maximums - vNetwork Standard & Distributed switches
----------------------------- Static or Dynamic Port groups per vCenter |
5000
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ESX Host Maximums - Networking Maximums - vNetwork Standard & Distributed switches
----------------------------- Ephemeral Port Groups per vCenter |
1016
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ESX Host Maximums - Networking Maximums - vNetwork Standard & Distributed switches
----------------------------- Distributed switches per vCenter |
32
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ESX Host Maximums - Networking Maximums - vNetwork Standard & Distributed switches
----------------------------- Distributed switches per Host |
16
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ESX Host Maximums - Networking Maximums - vNetwork Standard & Distributed switches
----------------------------- Hosts per distributed switch |
350
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ESX Host Maximums - Resource Pool & Cluster Maximums - Cluster (all clusters including HA & DRS)
----------------------------- Hosts per cluster |
32
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ESX Host Maximums - Resource Pool & Cluster Maximums - Cluster (all clusters including HA & DRS)
----------------------------- VMs per host |
3000
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ESX Host Maximums - Resource Pool & Cluster Maximums - Cluster (all clusters including HA & DRS)
----------------------------- Maximum concurrent host HA failover |
4
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ESX Host Maximums - Resource Pool & Cluster Maximums - Cluster (all clusters including HA & DRS)
----------------------------- Failover as % of cluster |
50%
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ESX Host Maximums - Resource Pool & Cluster Maximums - Cluster (all clusters including HA & DRS)
----------------------------- Resource pools per cluster |
512
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ESX Host Maximums - Resource Pool & Cluster Maximums - Cluster (all clusters including HA & DRS)
----------------------------- VMs per cluster |
320
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ESX Host Maximums - Resource Pool & Cluster Maximums - Resource Pool
----------------------------- Resource pool tree depth |
8
(Additional 4 resource pools are used by system internals) |
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ESX Host Maximums - Resource Pool & Cluster Maximums - Resource Pool
----------------------------- Resource pool per host |
4096
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ESX Host Maximums - Resource Pool & Cluster Maximums - Resource Pool
----------------------------- Children per resource pool |
1024
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vCenter Server Maximums - vCenter Server Scalability
----------------------------- Hosts per vCenter server |
1000
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vCenter Server Maximums - vCenter Server Scalability
----------------------------- Powered on VMs per vCenter server |
10000
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vCenter Server Maximums - vCenter Server Scalability
----------------------------- Registered VMs per vCenter server |
15000
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vCenter Server Maximums - vCenter Server Scalability
----------------------------- Linked vCenter servers |
10
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vCenter Server Maximums - vCenter Server Scalability
----------------------------- Hosts in linked vCenter servers |
3000
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vCenter Server Maximums - vCenter Server Scalability
----------------------------- Powered on VMs in linked vCenter Servers |
30000
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vCenter Server Maximums - vCenter Server Scalability
----------------------------- Registered VMs in linked vCenter Servers |
50000
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vCenter Server Maximums - vCenter Server Scalability
----------------------------- Concurrent vSphere Clients |
100
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vCenter Server Maximums - vCenter Server Scalability
----------------------------- Number of hosts per datacenter |
400
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vCenter Server Maximums - Concurrent Operations
----------------------------- Concurrent provisioning operations per host |
4
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vCenter Server Maximums - Concurrent Operations
----------------------------- Concurrent provisioning operations per datastore |
4
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vCenter Server Maximums - Concurrent Operations
----------------------------- Concurrent vMotion operations per host (1Gb/s network) |
4
(Concurrent vMotion operation is currently supported only when source and destination hosts are in the same cluster) |
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vCenter Server Maximums - Concurrent Operations
----------------------------- Concurrent vMotion operations per host (10Gb/s network) |
8
(Concurrent vMotion operation is currently supported only when source and destination hosts are in the same cluster) |
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vCenter Server Maximums - Concurrent Operations
----------------------------- Concurrent vMotion operations per VMFS3 datastore |
128
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vCenter Server Maximums - Concurrent Operations
----------------------------- Concurrent storage vMotion operations per host |
2
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vCenter Server Maximums - Concurrent Operations
----------------------------- Concurrent storage vMotion operations per datastore |
8
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VMware vCenter Update Manager - vCenter Update Manager Scalability
---------------------------------- Host scans in a single vCenter server |
1000
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VMware vCenter Update Manager - vCenter Update Manager Scalability
---------------------------------- VM scans in a single vCenter server |
10000
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VMware vCenter Update Manager - vCenter Update Manager Scalability
---------------------------------- Cisco VDS update and deployment |
70
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VMware vCenter Update Manager - Concurrent operations
-------------------------------- VM rememdiation per ESX host |
5
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VMware vCenter Update Manager - Concurrent operations
-------------------------------- Powered-on Windows VM scans per ESX host |
5
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VMware vCenter Update Manager - Concurrent operations
-------------------------------- Powered-off Windows VM scans per ESX host |
5
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VMware vCenter Update Manager - Concurrent operations
-------------------------------- Powered-on Linux VM scans per ESX host |
2
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VMware vCenter Update Manager - Concurrent operations
-------------------------------- VMware tools scan per ESX host |
24
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VMware vCenter Update Manager - Concurrent operations
-------------------------------- VMware tools upgrade per ESX host |
24
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VMware vCenter Update Manager - Concurrent operations
-------------------------------- VM hardware scan per host |
24
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VMware vCenter Update Manager - Concurrent operations
-------------------------------- VM hardware upgrade per host |
24
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VMware vCenter Update Manager - Concurrent operations
-------------------------------- VM remediation per VUM server |
48
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VMware vCenter Update Manager - Concurrent operations
-------------------------------- Powered-on VM scan per VUM server |
17
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VMware vCenter Update Manager - Concurrent operations
-------------------------------- Powered-off Windows VM scan per VUM server |
10
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VMware vCenter Update Manager - Concurrent operations
-------------------------------- ESX host upgrade per cluster |
1
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VMware vCenter Update Manager - Concurrent operations
-------------------------------- Powered-on Linux VM scan per VUM server |
8
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VMware vCenter Update Manager - Concurrent operations
-------------------------------- VMware tools scan per VUM server |
75
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VMware vCenter Update Manager - Concurrent operations
-------------------------------- VMware tools upgrade per VUM server |
75
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VMware vCenter Update Manager - Concurrent operations
-------------------------------- VM hardware scan per VUM server |
75
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VMware vCenter Update Manager - Concurrent operations
-------------------------------- VM hardware upgrade per VUM server |
75
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VMware vCenter Update Manager - Concurrent operations
-------------------------------- ESX host scan per VUM server |
70
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VMware vCenter Update Manager - Concurrent operations
-------------------------------- ESX host remediation per VUM server |
8
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VMware vCenter Update Manager - Concurrent operations
-------------------------------- ESX host upgrade per VUM server |
44
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VMware vCenter Orchestrator - vCenter Orchestrator Maximums
-------------------------------- Connected vCenter Server systems |
10
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VMware vCenter Orchestrator - vCenter Orchestrator Maximums
-------------------------------- Connected ESX/ESXi instances |
100
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VMware vCenter Orchestrator - vCenter Orchestrator Maximums
-------------------------------- Connected VMs |
15000
(Virtual machines spread across 10 vCenter servers) |
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VMware vCenter Orchestrator - vCenter Orchestrator Maximums
-------------------------------- Concurrent running workflows |
150
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VMware vCenter Convertor - vCenter Convertor Maximums
-------------------------------- Concurrent VM to VM import or export tasks |
8
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VMware vCenter Convertor - vCenter Convertor Maximums
-------------------------------- Concurrent physical machine to VM import or export tasks |
20
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VMware Storage Management Initiative - Specification (SMI-S) - vSphere SMI-S Maximums
-------------------------------- Number of vCenter Server systems connected |
1
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VMware Storage Management Initiative - Specification (SMI-S) - vSphere SMI-S Maximums
-------------------------------- Number of ESX/ESXi hosts connected |
1000
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VMware Storage Management Initiative - Specification (SMI-S) - vSphere SMI-S Maximums
-------------------------------- Number of ESX/ESXi hosts managed by vCenter Server |
320
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