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Virtual Machine Maximums SCSI Controllers per virtual machine Devices Per SCSI Controller SCSI Devices Per Virtual Machine Max Disk Size Number of Virtual CPU's per Virtual Machine RAM per Virtual Machine Number of NICs per Virtual Machine Number of IDE Devices Number of floppy devices per Virtual Machine Number of Parallel ports per Virtual Machine Sereial Ports per Virtual Machine Virtual Machine Swap Size Number of Virtual PCI Devices VMDirectPath PCI/PCIe devices per VM VMDirectPath SCSI targets per Virtual Machine Concurrent remote desktop sessions Storage Maximums Max I/O Size (Before Splits) Raw device mapping size Hosts per volume Hosts per cluster Volimes per host Extents per volume Extent Size Virtual Machines per Volume Number of HBA's of any type Number of targets per HBA (iSCSI HBA)
VMware Configurations Maximums Comparisons Matrix
ESX 3 4 15 60 2TB 4 16GB 4 4 2 3 4 16GB 6 NA NA 10 ESX 3 ESX 3.5 & 3.5U1 4 15 60 2TB 4 65GB 4 4 2 3 4 65GB 6 NA NA 10 ESX 3.5 & 3.5U1 32MB 2TB 32 32 256 32 2TB 16 15 (64)
For more information refer to the VMware Configuration Maximums documentation ESX 3.5U2 and Up 4 15 60 2TB 4 65GB 4 4 2 3 4 65GB 6 NA NA 10 ESX 3.5U2 and Up 32MB 2TB 32 32 256 32 2TB 16 15 (64) vSphere 4 4 15 60 2TB minus 512B 8 255GB 10 4 2 3 4 255GB 2 60 40 vSphere 4 32MB 2TB minus 512B 64 32 256 32 2TB minus 512B 64
2TB 32 32 256 32 2TB
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For more information refer to the VMware Configuration Maximums documentation.
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VMFS-2 Maximums MAX Volume Size File Size (block size = 1MB) File Size (block size = 8MB) File Size (block size = 64MB) File Size (block size = 256MB) Files Per volume VMFS-3 Maximums Volume (block size = 1MB) Volume (block size = 2MB) Volume (block size = 4MB) Volume (block size = 8MB) File Size (block size = 1MB) File Size (block size = 2MB) File Size (block size