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Virtual Machine Maximums |
| ESX 7.0 | ESX 6.7 | ESX 6.5 | |
| Virtual CPUs per virtual machine | 256 | 128 | 128 |
| RAM per virtual machine | 6128 GB | 6128 GB | 6128 GB |
| Virtual SCSI adapters per virtual machine | 4 | 4 | 4 |
| Virtual SCSI targets per virtual SCSI adapter | 15 | 15 | 15 |
| Virtual SCSI targets per virtual machine | 60 | 60 | 60 |
| Virtual NVMe adapters per virtual machine | 4 | 4 | 4 |
| Virtual NVMe targets per virtual SCSI | 15 | 15 | 15 |
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| Virtual NVMe targets per virtual machine | 60 | 60 | 60 |
| Virtual SATA adapters per virtual machine | 4 | 4 | 4 |
| Virtual SATA devices per virtual SATA adapter | 30 | 30 | 30 |
| Virtual disk size | 62TB | 62TB | 62TB |
| IDE controllers per virtual machine | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| IDE devices per virtual machine | 4 | 4 | 4 |
| Floppy controllers per virtual machine | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Floppy devices per virtual machine | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| Virtual NICs per virtual machine | 10 | 10 | 10 |
| USB controllers per virtual machine | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| USB devices connected to a virtual machine | 20 | 20 | 20 |
| Serial ports per virtual machine | 32 | 32 | 32 |
| Parallel ports per virtual machine | 3 | 3 | 3 |
| Concurrent remote console connections | 40 | 40 | 40 |
| Video memory per virtual machine | 4 GB | 2 GB | 2 GB |
| NVDIMM controllers per VM | 1 | 1 | |
| NVDIMM devices per VM | 64 | 64 | |
| Non-volatile memory per VM | 6128 GB | 6128 GB |
| Host Maximums |
| ESX 7.0 | ESX 6.7 | ESX 6.5 | |
| Logical CPUs per host | 768 | 768 | 576 |
| Virtual machines per host | 1024 | 1024 | 1024 |
| Virtual CPUs per host | 4096 | 4096 | 4096 |
| Virtual CPUs per core | 32 | 32 | 32 |
| RAM per host | 16TB | 16TB | 12TB |
| LUNs per server | 1024 | 1024 | 512 |
| Non-volatile memory per host | 12TB | 1TB |
| vCenter Server Maximums |
| vC 7.0 | vC 6.7 | vC 6.5 | |
| Hosts per vCenter Server | 2500 | 2000 | 2000 |
| Powered on virtual machines | 40000 | 25000 | 25000 |
| Registered virtual machines | 45000 | 35000 | 35000 |
| Linked vCenter Servers | 15 | 15 | 15 |
| Hosts in linked vCenter Servers | 15000 | 5000 | 4000 |
| Powered on virtual machines in linked vCenter | 135000 | 50000 | 30000 |
| Registered virtual machines in linked vCenter | 150000 | 70000 | 50000 |
| Number of host per datacenter | N/A | 2000 | 2000 |
| MAC addresses per vCenter Server | 65536 | 65536 | 65536 |
| Cluster and Resource Pool Maximums |
| ESXi 7.0 | ESX 6.7 | ESX 6.5 | |
| Hosts per cluster | 64 | 64 | 64 |
| Virtual machines per cluster | 8000 | 8000 | 8000 |
| Virtual machines per host | 1024 | 1024 | 1024 |
| Resource pools per cluster | 1600 | 1600 | 1600 |
| Resource pools per host | 1600 | 1600 | 1600 |
| Children per resource pool | 1600 | 1600 | 1600 |
| Resource pool tree depth | 8 | 8 | 8 |
| Network Maximums |
| ESX 7.0 | ESX 6.7 | ESX 6.5 | |
| Total virtual network switch ports per host | 4096 | 4096 | 4096 |
| Maximum active ports per host | 1016 | 1016 | 1016 |
| Virtual network switch creation ports | 4088 | 4088 | 4088 |
| Port groups | 512 | 512 | 512 |
| Distributed virtual network switch ports per vCenter | 60000 | 60000 | 60000 |
| Static port groups per vCenter | 10000 | 10000 | 10000 |
| Ephemeral port groups per vCenter | 1016 | 1016 | 1016 |
| Hosts per distributed switch | 2000 | 2000 | 2000 |
| Distributed switches per vCenter | 128 | 128 | 128 |
| Storage Maximums |
| ESX 7,0 | ESX 6.7 | ESX 6.5 | |
| Software iSCSI NICs per server | 8 | 8 | 8 |
| Number of total paths on a server | 4096 | 4096 | 2048 |
| Number of paths to a iSCSI LUN | 8 | 8 | 8 |
| Software iSCSI targets | 256 | 256 | 256 |
| NFS mounts per host | 256 | 256 | 256 |
| FC LUNs per host | 1024 | 1024 | 512 |
| FC LUN ID | 16383 | 16383 | 16383 |
| FC Number of paths to a LUN | 32 | 32 | 32 |
| Number of HBAs of any type | 8 | 8 | 8 |
| HBA ports | 16 | 16 | 16 |
| Targets per HBA | 256 | 256 | 256 |
| Software FCoE adapters | 4 | 4 | 4 |
| Volumes per host | 1024 | 1024 | 512 |
| Hosts per volume | 64 | 64 | 64 |
| Powered on virtual machines per VMFS volume | 2048 | 2048 | 2048 |
| Concurrent vMotion operations per datastore | 128 | 128 | 128 |
| Concurrent Storage vMotion operations per datastore | 8 | 8 | 8 |
| Concurrent Storage vMotion operations per host | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| Concurrent non vMotion provisioning operations per host | 8 | 8 | 8 |
| VMFS Volume size | 64TB | 64TB | 64TB |
| Virtual disks per datastore cluster | 9000 | 9000 | 9000 |
| Datastores per datastore cluster | 64 | 64 | 64 |
| Datastore clusters per vCenter | 256 | 256 | 256 |
| Fault Tolerance Maximums |
| ESX 7.0 | ESX 6.7 | ESX 6.5 | |
| Virtual disks | 16 | 16 | 16 |
| Virtual CPUs per virtual machine | 8 | 8 | 4 |
| RAM per FT VM | 128GB | 128GB | 64GB |
| Virtual machines per host | 4 | 4 | 4 |
| Disk size | 2 TB | 2 TB | 2 TB |
| Virtual SAN Maximums |
| ESX 7.0 | ESX 6.7 | ESX 6.5 | |
| Virtual SAN disk groups per host | 5 | 5 | 5 |
| Capacity tier devices per disk group | 7 | 7 | 7 |
| Cache tier devices per disk group | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Spinning disks in all diskgroups per host | 35 | 35 | 35 |
| Components per Virtual SAN host | 9000 | 9000 | 9000 |
| Number of Virtual SAN nodes in a cluster | 64 | 64 | 64 |
| Number of Virtual SAN nodes in a cluster (All-Flash) | 64 | 32 | 32 |
| Number of datastores per cluster | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Virtual machines per host | 200 | 200 | 200 |
| Virtual machines per cluster | 6400 | 6000 | 6000 |
| Virtual machine virtual disk size | 62TB | 62TB | 62TB |
| Disk stripes per object | 12 | 12 | 12 |
| Percentage of flash read cache reservation | 100 | 100 | 100 |
| Percentage of object space reservation | 100 | 100 | 100 |
| Virtual SAN networks/physical network fabrics | 2 | 2 | 2 |
