Configuration Maximums VMware vSphere 4.1 (Storage Maximums)

  1. ESX Host Maximums
    Storage Maximums iSCSI Physical

    LUNs per server
    256
  2. ESX Host Maximums
    Storage Maximums iSCSI Physical

    Qlogic 1Gb iSCSI HBA initiator ports per server
    4
  3. ESX Host Maximums
    Storage Maximums iSCSI Physical

    Broadcom 1Gb iSCSI HBA initiator ports per server
    4
  4. ESX Host Maximums
    Storage Maximums iSCSI Physical

    Broadcom 10Gb iSCSI HBA initiator ports per server
    4
  5. ESX Host Maximums
    Storage Maximums iSCSI Physical

    NICs that can be associated or port bound with the software iSCSI stackper server
    8
  6. ESX Host Maximums
    Storage Maximums iSCSI Physical

    Number of total paths on a server
    1024
  7. ESX Host Maximums
    Storage Maximums iSCSI Physical

    Number of paths to a LUN (software iSCSI and hardware iSCSI)
    8
  8. ESX Host Maximums
    Storage Maximums iSCSI Physical

    Qlogic iSCSI: dynamic targets per adapter port
    64
  9. ESX Host Maximums
    Storage Maximums iSCSI Physical

    Qlogic iSCSI: static targets per adapter port
    62
  10. ESX Host Maximums
    Storage Maximums iSCSI Physical

    Broadcom 1Gb iSCSI HBA targets
    64
  11. ESX Host Maximums
    Storage Maximums iSCSI Physical

    Broadcom 10Gb iSCSI HBA targets
    64
  12. ESX Host Maximums
    Storage Maximums iSCSI Physical

    Software iSCSI targets
    256

    The sum of static targets (manually assigned IP addresses) and dynamic targets (IP addressesassigned to discovered targets) may not exceed this number.
  13. ESX Host Maximums
    Storage Maximums NAS

    NFS mounts per host
    64
  14. ESX Host Maximums
    Storage Maximums Fibre Channel

    LUNs per host
    256
  15. ESX Host Maximums
    Storage Maximums Fibre Channel

    LUN size
    2TB minus 512 bytes
  16. ESX Host Maximums
    Storage Maximums Fibre Channel

    LUN ID
    255
  17. ESX Host Maximums
    Storage Maximums Fibre Channel

    LUNs concurrently opened by all virtual machines
    256
  18. ESX Host Maximums
    Storage Maximums Fibre Channel

    Number of paths to a LUN
    32
  19. ESX Host Maximums
    Storage Maximums Fibre Channel

    Number of total paths on a server
    1024
  20. ESX Host Maximums
    Storage Maximums Fibre Channel

    Number of HBAs of any type
    8
  21. ESX Host Maximums
    Storage Maximums Fibre Channel

    HBA ports
    16
  22. ESX Host Maximums
    Storage Maximums Fibre Channel

    Targets per HBA
    256
  23. ESX Host Maximums
    Storage Maximums VMFS

    Raw device mapping (RDM) size
    2TB minus 512 bytes
  24. ESX Host Maximums
    Storage Maximums VMFS

    Volume size
    64TB
  25. ESX Host Maximums
    Storage Maximums VMFS

    Volumes per host
    256
  26. ESX Host Maximums
    Storage Maximums VMFS

    Hosts per volume
    64
  27. ESX Host Maximums
    Storage Maximums VMFS-3

    Block size
    8MB
  28. ESX Host Maximums
    Storage Maximums VMFS-3

    File size (1MB block size)
    256GB
  29. ESX Host Maximums
    Storage Maximums VMFS-3

    File size (2MB block size)
    512GB
  30. ESX Host Maximums
    Storage Maximums VMFS-3

    File size (4MB block size)
    1TB
  31. ESX Host Maximums
    Storage Maximums VMFS-3

    File size (8MB block size)
    2TB minus 512 bytes
  32. ESX Host Maximums
    Storage Maximums VMFS-3

    Files per volume
    Approximately 30,720
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Configuration Maximums VMware vSphere 4.1 (Storage Maximums)
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Configuration Maximums VMware vSphere 4.1 (Storage Maximums)
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