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VMware offers these tested, recommended limits for VMware vSphere 5.
July 13, 2012
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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