Q: What are the VMware vSphere 5 limits?

VMware offers these tested, recommended limits for VMware vSphere 5.

John Savill

July 13, 2012

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A: Based on VMware's latest data about configuration at the VMware website, the following are some key limits around hosts and virtual machines (VMs).

System

Resource

vSphere 5

Host

Logical Processors

160

Host

Physical Memory

2TB

Host

Virtual processors per host

2048

VM

vCPUs per VM

32

VM

Memory per VM

1TB

VM

Max virtual disk size

2TB

Cluster

Nodes

32

Cluster

Virtual Machines

3000

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