Virtual Machine Maximums
vSphere 6.7 6.5 6 5.5 5.1 5
Virtual CPUs per virtual machine 128 128 128 64 64 32
RAM per virtual machine 6TB 6TB 4TB 1TB 1TB 1TB
Virtual SCSI adapters per virtual machine 4 4 4 4 4 4
Virtual SCSI targets per virtual SCSI
64 15 15 15
adapter
Virtual SCSI targets per virtual machine 256 60 60 60
Virtual NVMe adapters per virtual machine 4 4
Virtual NVMe targets per virtual SCSI
15 15
adapter
Virtual NVMe targets per virtual machine 60 60
Virtual SATA adapters per virtual machine 4 4 4 4
Virtual SATA devices per virtual SATA
30 30 30 30
adapter
Virtual disk size 62TB 62TB 62TB 62TB 2TB 2TB
IDE controllers per virtual machine 1 1 1 1 1 1
IDE devices per virtual machine 4 4 4 4 4 4
Floppy controllers per virtual machine 1 1 1 1 1 1
Floppy devices per virtual machine 2 2 2 2 2 2
Virtual NICs per virtual machine 10 10 10 10 10 10
USB controllers per virtual machine 1 1 1 1 1 1
USB devices connected to a virtual machine 20 20 20 20 20 20
USB 3.0 devices per virtual machine 1 1 1 1 1 1
Video memory per virtual machine 2GB 2GB 512MB 512MB
Parallel ports per virtual machine 3 3 3 3 3 3
Host Maximums
vSphere 6.7 6.5 6 5.5 5.1 5
Logical CPUs per host 768 576 480 320 160 160
Virtual machines per host 1024 1024 1024 512 512 512
Virtual CPUs per host 4096 4096 4096 4096 2048 2048
Virtual CPUs per core 32 32 32 32 25 25
RAM per host 16TB 12TB 12TB 4TB 2TB 2TB
Network Maximums
vSphere 6.7 6.5 6 5.5 5.1 5
Total virtual network switch ports per host 4096 4096 4096 4096 4096 4096
Maximum active ports per host 1016 1016 1016 1016 1050 1050
Virtual network switch creation ports 4088 4088 4088 4088 4088 4088
Port groups 512 512 512 512 512 512
Distributed virtual network switch ports
60000 60000 60000 60000 60000 60000
per vCenter
Static port groups per vCenter 10000 10000 10000 10000 10000 10000
Ephemeral port groups per vCenter 1016 1016 1016 1016 1016 1016
Hosts per distributed switch 2000 2000 1000 500 500 350
Distributed switches per vCenter 128 128 128 128 128 32
VMDirectPath PCI/PCIe devices per host 8 8 8 8 8 8
VMDirectPath PCI/PCIe devices per virtual
4 4 4 4 4 4
machine
Concurrent vMotion operations per host
4 4 4 4 4 4
(1Gb/s network)
Concurrent vMotion operations per host
4 8 8 8 8 8
(10Gb/s network)
Storage Maximums
vSphere 6.7 6.5 6 5.5 5.1 5
Software iSCSI NICs per server 8 8 8 8 8
Number of total paths on a server 2048 1024 1024 1024 1024
Number of paths to a iSCSI LUN 8 8 8 8 8
Software iSCSI targets 256 256 256 256 256
NFS mounts per host 256 256 256 256 256
FC LUNs per host 512 256 256 256 256
FC LUN ID 16383 1023 255 255 255
FC Number of paths to a LUN 32 32 32 32 32
Number of HBAs of any type 8 8 8 8 8
HBA ports 16 16 16 16 16
Targets per HBA 256 256 256 256 256
Software FCoE adapters 4 4 4 4 4
Hosts per volume 64 64 64 64 64
Powered on virtual machines per VMFS
2048 2048 2048 2048 2048
volume
Concurrent vMotion operations per
128 128 128 128 128
datastore
Concurrent Storage vMotion operations
8 8 8 8 8
per datastore
Concurrent Storage vMotion operations per
2 2 2 2 2
host
Concurrent non vMotion provisioning
8 8 8 8 8
operations per host
VMFS Volume size 64TB 64TB 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
vSphere 6.7 6.5 6 5.5 5.1 5
Virtual disks 16 16 16 16 16
Virtual CPUs per virtual machine 8 4 4 1 1 1
RAM per FT VM 64GB 64GB 64GB 64GB 64GB 64GB
Virtual machines per host 4 4 4 4 4 4
Virtual SAN Maximums
vSphere 6.7 6.5 6 5.5
Virtual SAN disk groups per host 5 5 5 5
Magnetic disks per disk group 7 7 7 7
SSD disks per disk group 1 1 1 1
Spinning disks in all diskgroups per host 35 35 35 35
Components per Virtual SAN host 9000 9000 9000 3000
Number of Virtual SAN nodes in a cluster 64 64 64 32
Number of Virtual SAN nodes in a cluster
32 32
(All-Flash)
Number of datastores per cluster 1 1 1 1
Virtual machines per host 200 200 200 100
Virtual machines per cluster 6000 6000 6400 3200
Virtual machine virtual disk size 62TB 62TB 62TB 62TB
Disk stripes per object 12 12 12 12
Percentage of flash read cache reservation 100 100 100 100
Failure to tolerate 3 3 3 3
Percentage of object space reservation 100 100 100 100
Virtual SAN networks/physical network
2 2 2 2
fabrics
vCenter Server Maximums
vSphere 6.7 6.5 6 5.5 5.1 5
Hosts per vCenter Server 2000 2000 1000 1000 1000 1000
Powered on virtual machines 25000 25000 10000 10000 10000 10000
Registered virtual machines 35000 15000 15000 15000 15000
Linked vCenter Servers 15 15-Oct 10 10 10 10
Hosts in linked vCenter Servers 8000 6000 4000 3000 3000 3000
Powered on virtual machines in linked 30000/500
50000 30000 30000 30000 30000
vCenter 00
Registered virtual machines in linked
70000 50000 50000 50000 50000 50000
vCenter
Concurrent Client connections 60 180 100 100 100
Number of host per datacenter 2000 500 500 500 500
MAC addresses per vCenter Server 65536 65536 65536 65536 65536
USB devices connected at vSphere Client 20 20 20 20
Cluster and Resource Pool Maximums
vSphere 6.7 6.5 6 5.5 5.1 5
Hosts per cluster 64 64 64 32 32 32
Virtual machines per cluster 8000 8000 4000 4000 4000 3000
Virtual machines per host 1024 1024 512 512 512
Maximum concurrent host HA failover 32 32
Failover as percentage of cluster 100% 100%
Resource pools per cluster 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600
Resource pools per host 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600
Children per resource pool 1100 1100 1024 1024 1024
Resource pool tree depth 8 8 8 8 8 8
