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vSphere 5 Maximums: Virtual Machine and ESXi Hosts Specifications

Explore the maximum specifications for virtual machines and ESXi hosts in vSphere 5, including compute, memory, storage, network, and peripheral port limits.

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vSphere 5 Maximums: Virtual Machine and ESXi Hosts Specifications

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  1. 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 • Floppy Controllers per VM • Floppy Disks per VM • vNICs per VM • Parallel Ports per VM • Serial Ports per VM • PCI/ PCIe per VM • SCSI Targets per VM • Concurrent Remote Consoles • 32 • 1TB • 1TB • 4 • 15 • 60 • 2TB minus 512B • 1 • 4 • 1 • 2 • 10 • 3 • 4 • 2 • 60 • 40

  2. vSphere 5 – Maximums – ESXi Hosts • Compute • Fault Tolerance • Memory • Logical CPUs per Host • VMs per Host • vCPUs per Host • vCPUs per Core • Virtual Disks • vCPUs • RAM per FT VM • FT VMs per Host • RAM per Host • No. of swap files • Swap File Size • 160 • 512 • 2048 • 25 • 16 • 1 • 64GB • 4 • 2TB • 1 per VM • 1TB Dept. / Author / Date

  3. vSphere 5 – Maximums – ESXi Hosts • Storage • iSCSI Physical • LUNs per server • iSCSI HBA initiator ports per Host • NICs that can be associated or port bound with the software iSCSI stack per server • Number of total paths • Qlogic iSCSI: • Broadcom 1Gb iSCSI HBA targets per adapter port • Broadcom 10Gb iSCSI HBA targets per adapter port • Software iSCSI targets • 256 • Qlogic 1Gb • Broadcom 1Gb • Broadcom 10Gb • 8 • on a server • to a LUN (software iSCSI and hardware iSCSI) • dynamic targets per adapter port • static targets per adapter port • 64 • 128 • 256 • 4 • 4 • 4 • 1024 • 8 • 64 • 62

  4. vSphere 5 – Maximums – ESXi Hosts Storage • Virtual Disks per Host • NAS • Fiber Channel • FCoE • 2048 • NFS Mounts per Host • LUNs per Host • LUN ID • Number of Paths to LUN • Number of total paths on a server • Number of HBAs of any type • HBA ports • Targets per HBA • Software FCoE Adapters • 256 • 256 • 255 • 32 • 1024 • 8 • 16 • 256 • 4 Dept. / Author / Date

  5. vSphere 5 – Maximums – ESXi Hosts • Storage • VMFS • VMFS3 • VMFS5 • Volumes per Host • Hosts per Volume • Powered-on VMs per VMFS Volume • Volume Size • Raw device mapping size • Block size • File size • Files per volume • Volume size • Raw Device Mapping size • Block size • File size • Files per volume • 256 • 64 • 2048 • 64TB • (virtual compatibility) • (physical compatibility) • 8MB • (1MB block size) • (2MB block size) • (4MB block size) • (8MB block size) • Approximately 30,720 • 64TB • (virtual compatibility) • (physical compatibility) • 2TB minus 512 bytes • Approximately 130,690 • 1MB • 2TB minus 512 bytes • 2TB minus 512 bytes6 • 256GB • 512GB • 1TB • 2TB minus 512 bytes • 2TB minus 512 bytes • 64TB Dept. / Author / Date

  6. vSphere 5 – Maximums – ESXi Hosts Storage • Concurrent Operations • vMotions per Datastore • Storage vMotion • Non-vMotion provisioning Operations • 128 • Per Datastore • Per Host • 8 • 8 • 2 Dept. / Author / Date

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