Scalability changes in ESX 6

Learn the scalability changes in ESX 6.

John Savill

May 18, 2015

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Scalability changes in ESX 6

Q. What are the scalability changes in ESXi 6.0?

A. ESXi 6.0 offers a number of improvements to its scalability for the host and VMs (using the new hardware version 11). Below are the key changes.

Limit

vSphere 5.5

vSphere 6

Improvement

Hosts per Cluster

32

64

2x

VMs per Cluster

4,000

8,000

2x

CPUs per Host

320

480

1.5x

RAM per Host

4 TB

12 TB

3x

VMs per Host

512

1,024

2x

vCPUs per VM

64

128

2x

Virtual RAM per VM

1 TB

4 TB

4x

 

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