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Configuration Maximums
VMware vSphere 5.1
Whenyouselectandconfigureyourvirtualandphysicalequipment,youmuststayatorbelowthemaximums supportedbyvSphere5.1.Thelimitspresentedinthefollowingtablesrepresenttested,recommendedlimits, andtheyarefullysupportedbyVMware.
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17 208 3 1 4
512MB
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1. VMFS3withIMBblockmaximumswapsizeis255GB.RecommendedsolutionisVMFS5,not VMFS3withbiggerblocksize. 2. AnycombinationofdiskorVMDirectPathSCSItarget. 3. Supportstwochannels(primaryandsecondary)eachwithamasterandslavedevice. 4. DevicescanbeeitherCDROMordisk. 5. BIOSisconfiguredforonefloppydevice. 6. AnycombinationofsupportedvirtualNICs. 7. SupportsUSB1.xandUSB2.xdevices. 8. GuestoperatingsystemsmighthavesmallerlimitsthanallowedbyvSphere 9. SupportsUSB1.x,2.xand3.0devices.
Compute Maximums
Table 2containsconfigurationmaximumsrelatedtoESXihostcomputeresources. Table 2. Compute Maximums
Item Host CPU maximums LogicalCPUsperhost NUMANodesperhost Virtual machine maximums Virtualmachinesperhost VirtualCPUsperhost VirtualCPUspercore Fault Tolerance maximums Virtualdisks VirtualCPUspervirtualmachine 16 1 512 2048 251 160 8 Maximum
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Memory Maximums
Table 3containsconfigurationmaximumsrelatedtoESXihostmemory. Table 3. Memory Maximums
Item RAMperhost Numberofswapfiles Swapfilesize Maximum 2TB 1pervirtualmachine 1TB1
1. OnVMFS3,useablocksizelargerthan1MBforswapfileslargerthan255GB
Storage Maximums
Table 4containsconfigurationmaximumsrelatedtoESXihoststorage. Table 4. Storage Maximums
Item Virtual Disks VirtualDisksperHost iSCSI Physical LUNsperserver Qlogic1GbiSCSIHBAinitiatorportsperserver Broadcom1GbiSCSIHBAinitiatorportsperserver Broadcom10GbiSCSIHBAinitiatorportsperserver NICsthatcanbeassociatedorportboundwiththesoftwareiSCSI stackperserver Numberoftotalpathsonaserver NumberofpathstoaLUN(softwareiSCSIandhardwareiSCSI) QlogiciSCSI:dynamictargetsperadapterport QlogiciSCSI:statictargetsperadapterport Broadcom1GbiSCSIHBAtargetsperadapterport Broadcom10GbiSCSIHBAtargetsperadapterport SoftwareiSCSItargets NAS2 NFSmountsperhost Fibre Channel LUNsperhost LUNsize LUNID NumberofpathstoaLUN 256 64TB 255 32 256 256 4 4 4 8 1024 8 64 62 641 128 2561 2048 Maximum
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1. Thesumofstatictargets(manuallyassignedIPaddresses)anddynamictargets(IPaddressesassigned todiscoveredtargets)maynotexceedthisnumber. 2. ContactyourstoragearrayvendororNFSservervendorforinformationaboutthemaximumNFS volumesize. 3. 1MBisdefaultblocksize.UpgradedVMFS5volumeswillinherittheVMFS3blocksizevalue. 4. MaximumfilesizeforupgradedVMFS5is2TBminus512 bytes,irrespectiveofthefilesystemblock size. 5. ForVMFS3volumeswith1MBblocksize,themaximumis50TB. 6. IfthepresentedLUNisgreaterthan2TB. 7. TheactualmaximumwilldependontheRAIDcontrollerormaximumsizeofLUNsupportedby storageaccessdriver(FC,iSCSI)thatisbeingused.Contactyourvendortofindthemaximums.
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Networking Maximums
Thefollowinglimitsrepresentachievablemaximumconfigurationlimitsfornetworkinginenvironments wherenoothermorerestrictivelimitsapply(forexample,vCenterServerlimits,thelimitsimposedby featuressuchasHAorDRS,andotherconfigurationsthatmightimposerestrictionsmustbeconsideredwhen deployinglargescalesystems). Table 5containsconfigurationmaximumsrelatedtoESXihostnetworking. Table 5. Networking Maximums
Item Physical NICs e10001GbEthernetports(IntelPCIx) e1000e1GbEthernetports(IntelPCIe) igb1GbEthernetports(Intel) tg31GbEthernetports(Broadcom) bnx21GbEthernetports(Broadcom) forcedeth1GbEthernetports(NVIDIA) nx_nic10GbEthernetports(NetXen) ixgbe10GbEthernetports(Intel) bnx2x10GbEthernetports(Broadcom) be2net10GbEthernetports(Emulex) Combinationof10Gband1GbEthernetports Infinibandports(refertoVMwareCommunitySupport) VMDirectPath limits VMDirectPathPCI/PCIedevicesperhost VMDirectPathPCI/PCIedevicespervirtualmachine vSphere Standard and Distributed Switch Totalvirtualnetworkswitchportsperhost(VDSandVSSports) Maximumactiveportsperhost(VDSandVSS) Virtualnetworkswitchcreationportsperstandardswitch Portgroupsperstandardswitch DistributedvirtualnetworkswitchportspervCenter StaticportgroupspervCenter EphemeralportgroupspervCenter HostsperVDS DistributedswitchespervCenter Concurrent Operations ConcurrentvMotionoperationsperhost(1Gb/snetwork) ConcurrentvMotionoperationsperhost(10Gb/snetwork) Link aggregation control protocol LinkaggregationgroupspervDS Uplinkportsperlinkaggregationgroup Teaming Uplinkportsperteam 32 1 4 4 8 4096 1050 4088 256 60000 10000 256 500 128 8 42 32 24 16 32 16 2 8 8 8 8 Six10Gband Four1Gbports N/A1 Maximum
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vCenter VASA
Table 11containsconfigurationmaximumsforvCenterVASA. Table 11. vCenter VASA Maximums
Item Storageproviders Maximum 10
Storage DRS
Table 12containsconfigurationmaximumsforStorageDRS. Table 12. Storage DRS
Item Virtualdisksperdatastorecluster Datastoresperdatastorecluster DatastoreclusterspervCenter Maximum 9000 32 256
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