VMware Virtual Machine Maximums

  1. Virtual CPUs per virtual machine (Virtual SMP)
    32
  2. RAM per virtual machine
    1TB
  3. Virtual machine swap file size
    • 1TB
    • Use VMFS3 with blocksize larger than 1MB for swap files larger than 255GB.
  4. Virtual SCSI adapters per virtual machine
    • 4
    • Any combination of supported SCSI virtual storage controllers. Four Paravirtual SCSI adaptersmay be used only if the virtual machine boots from a device attached to an IDE controller, or fromthe network.
  5. Virtual SCSI targets per virtual SCSI adapter
    • 15
    • Any combination of disk, CD‐ROM, or VMDirectPath SCSI target.
  6. Virtual SCSI targets per virtual machine
    60
  7. Virtual Disks per virtual machine (PVSCSI)
    60
  8. Virtual disk size
    2TB minus 512 bytes
  9. IDE controllers per virtual machine
    • 1
    • Supports two channels (primary and secondary) each with a master and slave device.
  10. IDE devices per virtual machine
    • 4
    • Devices can be either CD‐ROM or disk
  11. Floppy controllers per virtual machine
    1
  12. Floppy devices per virtual machine
    • 2
    • BIOS is configured for one floppy device.
  13. Virtual NICs per virtual machine
    • 10
    • Any combination of supported virtual NICs.
  14. USB controllers per virtual machine
    • 1
    • Supports USB 1.x and USB 2.x devices.
  15. USB devices connected to a virtual machine
    20
  16. Parallel ports per virtual machine
    3
  17. USB 3.0 devices per virtual machine
    1
  18. xHCI USB controllers9
    • 20
    • Guest operating systems might have smaller limits than allowed by vSphere.
  19. Serial ports per virtual machine
    4
  20. Video memory per virtual machine
    128MB
  21. Concurrent remote console connections to a virtual machine
    40
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VMware Virtual Machine Maximums
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Virtual Machine Maximums
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