Recommended Configuration

Maximums

vSphere 8.0
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This Configuration Maximums tool provides the recommended configuration limits for VMware products.
When you configure, deploy and operate your virtual and physical equipment, it is highly recommended
you stay within the limits supported by your product. The limits presented in the tool are tested,
recommended limits, and are fully supported by VMware.

Disclaimer: The limits can be affected by other factors, such as hardware dependencies. For more information about the
supported hardware, see the appropriate hardware compatibility guide. It might not be possible to maximize all configuration
settings and expect your desired outcome. To ensure that you do not exceed supported configurations for your environment,
consult individual solution limits. The recommended configuration limits do not represent the theoretical possibilities of your
product.

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Category Limits Description

Virtual Machine Maximums

Compute Virtual CPUs per virtual machine 768 New vCPU limits supported for VM
(Virtual SMP) from 7.0U1 with HW version 18.
7.0GA supports only 256 vCPUs

Memory RAM per virtual machine 24 TB New RAM limits of 24TB is

supported for VM from 7.0U1 with
HW version 18.
7.0GA supports 6128 GB
Memory Virtual machine swap file size 24 TB New limit of 24TB is applicable
from 7.0U1. In 7.0GA the limit is
6TB.
VMFS3 with 1 MB block maximum
swap size is 255 GB.
Recommended solution is VMFS5,
not VMFS3 with bigger block size
Storage Virtual Adapters and Virtual SCSI adapters per virtual 4
Devices machine
Storage Virtual Adapters and Virtual SCSI Targets Per Virtual 64 Limit applicable to PVSCSI only.
Devices SCSI Adapter (PVSCSI only) Any combination of disk or
VMDirectPath SCSI target.
Storage Virtual Adapters and Virtual SCSI Targets Per Virtual 256 Limit applicable to PVSCSI only.
Devices Machine (PVSCSI only)
Storage Virtual Adapters and Virtual NVMe adapters per virtual 4
Devices machine
Storage Virtual Adapters and Virtual NVMe targets per virtual 15
Devices NVMe adapter
Storage Virtual Adapters and Virtual NVMe targets per virtual 60
Devices machine
Storage Virtual Adapters and Virtual disk size 62 TB
Devices
Storage Virtual Adapters and IDE controllers per virtual machine 1 Supports two channels (primary
Devices and secondary) each with a master
and slave device.
Storage Virtual Adapters and IDE devices per virtual machine 4 Devices can be either CD-ROM or
Devices disk.
Storage Virtual Adapters and IDE CDROM devices per virtual 4
Devices machine
Storage Virtual Adapters and Floppy controllers per virtual 1
Devices machine
Storage Virtual Adapters and Floppy devices per virtual machine 2 BIOS is configured for one floppy
Devices device.
Storage Virtual Adapters and Virtual SATA adapters per virtual 4
Devices machine
Storage Virtual Adapters and Virtual SATA devices per virtual 30 Devices can be either CD-ROM or
Devices SATA adapter disk
Storage Virtual Adapters and Virtual SCSI targets per virtual SCSI 15 For SCSI adapters other than
Devices adapter PVSCSI. Any combination of disk or
VMDirectPath SCSI target.
Storage Virtual Adapters and Virtual SCSI targets per virtual 60 For SCSI adapters other than
Devices machine PVSCSI.
Networking Virtual Devices Virtual NICs per virtual machine 10 Any combination of supported
virtual NICs
Networking Virtual Devices Virtual RDMA Adapters per Virtual 1
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Category Limits Description

Virtual Peripheral Ports USB host controllers per virtual 1 USB 1.x, 2.x and 3.x supported. One
machine USB host controller of each version
1.x, 2.x, or 3.x can be added at the
same time.
Virtual Peripheral Ports USB devices connected to a virtual 20 Guest operating systems might
machine have lower limits than allowed by
vSphere.
Virtual Peripheral Ports Parallel ports per virtual machine 3
Virtual Peripheral Ports Serial ports per virtual machine 32
Miscellaneous Concurrent remote console 40
connections to a virtual machine
Storage Policies Maximum number of virtual 1024
machine storage policies
Graphics video device Video memory per virtual machine 4 GB
Persistent Memory Non-volatile memory per virtual 12 TB Total combined memory (including
machine volatile and non-volatile memory)
can't exceed the maximum memory
limit 15TB per virtual machine from
7.0U1 - Up to 12TB vNVDIMM + up
to 3 vRAM. 7.0GA supports
combined memory 6TB
Persistent Memory Number of NVDIMMs per virtual 64
machine
Persistent Memory NVDIMM controllers per VM 1
PCI passthrough devices Number of PCI passthrough 128 Number of PCI passthrough
devices per VM devices per VM are 128 from 8.0 U2
onwards
vCenter Server Maximums - AuthN/AuthZ

SSO related scale maximums

vCenter Server Scalability Maximum objects within a vSphere 1000000
Domain (Users and Groups)
vCenter Server Scalability Maximum tolerance for time skew 5 minutes
between PSC nodes
vCenter Server Scalability Maximum latency supported 150 ms The latency numbers are for an
between linked vCenter Servers end-to-end trip. From client to VC it
is 100ms, and VC to VC it is 150ms.
vCenter Server Scalability Maximum latency supported 100 ms Maximum latency supported
between vSphere client and vCenter between vSphere client & vCenter
Server Server.
Identity Source Maximum Active Directory or 1015
OpenLDAP Groups per User for best
performance
VMCA/Certificate Maximum number of subordinate 6
Certificate Authority servers in the
chain within VMware Certificate
Authority
VMCA/Certificate Maximum cryptographic hash used 3
for PSC Node certificate
VMCA/Certificate Maximum RSA Public Key length 16384
used for PSC Node certificate
vCenter Server Extensions : vSphere Lifecycle Manager

vSphere lifecycle manager configuration

Concurrent Operations vSAN hosts in a cluster managed 64 vSAN hosts in a cluster managed
by vLCM by vLCM.
Note: Only one vSAN host can be
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Category Limits Description

Concurrent Operations Non-vSAN hosts in a cluster 96 Non-vSAN hosts in a cluster
managed by vLCM managed by vLCM
Concurrent Operations Clusters managed and remediated 64 Clusters managed and remediated
in parallel using vLCM in parallel using vLCM in a vCenter
Concurrent Operations ESXi single image-managed 1000 ESXi single image-managed
clustered hosts scan per vCenter clustered hosts scan per vCenter
with vSphere Lifecycle Manager
Concurrent Operations ESXi single image-managed 64 ESXi single image-managed
standalone hosts scan per vCenter standalone hosts scan per vCenter
with vSphere Lifecycle Manager
Concurrent Operations ESXi single image-managed 1000 ESXi single image-managed
clustered hosts remediation per clustered hosts remediation (apply)
vCenter per vCenter with vSphere Lifecycle
Manager
Concurrent Operations ESXi single image-managed 64 ESXi single image-managed
standalone hosts remediation per standalone hosts remediation
vCenter (apply) per vCenter with vSphere
Lifecycle Manager
Concurrent Operations ESXi baseline-managed clustered/ 64 ESXi baseline-managed clustered/
standalone hosts patch/upgrade standalone hosts patch/upgrade
scan per vCenter scan per vCenter with vSphere
Lifecycle Manager
Concurrent Operations ESXi baseline-managed clustered 32 ESXi baseline-managed clustered
hosts patch remediation per hosts patch remediation per
vCenter vCenter with vSphere Lifecycle
Manager
Concurrent Operations ESXi baseline-managed standalone 15 ESXi baseline-managed standalone
hosts patch remediation per hosts patch remediation per
vCenter vCenter with vSphere Lifecycle
Manager
Concurrent Operations ESXi baseline-managed clustered 32 ESXi baseline-managed clustered
hosts upgrade per vCenter hosts upgrade per vCenter with
vSphere Lifecycle Manager
Concurrent Operations ESXi baseline-managed standalone 15 ESXi baseline-managed standalone
hosts upgrade per vCenter hosts upgrade per vCenter with
vSphere Lifecycle Manager
Concurrent Operations Virtual Machine HW scan per ESXi 64 Virtual Machine HW scan per ESXi
host with vLCM host with vLCM
Concurrent Operations Virtual Machine HW upgrade per 5 Virtual Machine HW upgrade per
ESXi host with vLCM ESXi host with vLCM
Concurrent Operations Virtual Machine Tools scan per 64 Virtual Machine Tools scan per
ESXi host with vLCM ESXi host with vLCM
Concurrent Operations Virtual Machine Tools upgrade per 5 Virtual Machine Tools upgrade per
ESXi host with vLCM ESXi host with vLCM
Concurrent Operations Virtual Machine Tools scan per 64 Virtual Machine Tools scan per
vCenter with vLCM vCenter with vLCM
Concurrent Operations Virtual Machine Tools upgrade per 20 Virtual Machine Tools upgrade per
vCenter with vLCM vCenter with vLCM
Concurrent Operations Virtual Machine hardware scan per 64 Virtual Machine hardware scan per
vCenter with vLCM vCenter with vLCM
Concurrent Operations Virtual Machine hardware upgrade 20 Virtual Machine hardware upgrade
per vCenter with vLCM per vCenter with vLCM
vCenter Server Extensions : VMware vRealize Orchestrator

vCenter Orchestrator Maximums Connected vCenter Server systems 20

vCenter Orchestrator Maximums Connected ESXi instances 1280
vCenter Orchestrator Maximums Connected virtual machines 35000 15,000 per vRealize Orchestrator
Cluster node.
vCenter Orchestrator Maximums Concurrent running workflows 300
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Category Limits Description

VMware vSphere Flash Read Cache

Flash Read Cache Maximums Virtual flash resource per host 1

Flash Read Cache Maximums Maximum cache for each virtual 400 GB
disk
Flash Read Cache Maximums Cumulative cache configured per 2 TB
host (for all virtual disks)
Flash Read Cache Maximums Virtual disk size 16 TB
Flash Read Cache Maximums Virtual host swap cache size 4 TB
Flash Read Cache Maximums Flash devices per virtual flash 8
resource
VMware vSAN

vSAN ESXi host vSAN disk groups per host OSA: 5.

ESA: N/A
vSAN ESXi host SSD disks per disk group OSA: 1.
ESA: N/A
vSAN ESXi host Spinning disks in all diskgroups per OSA: 35.
host ESA: N/A
vSAN ESXi host Components per vSAN host OSA: 9,000.
ESA: 27,000
vSAN ESXi host Cache tier maximum devices per OSA: 5.
host ESA: N/A
vSAN ESXi host Capacity tier maximum devices per OSA: 7.
diskgroup ESA: N/A
vSAN ESXi host Capacity tier maximum devices OSA: 35.
ESA: 24
vSAN Cluster Number of vSAN hosts in a cluster 64 Number of vSAN hosts in a cluster
managed by vSphere Lifecycle
Manager is 64
vSAN Cluster Number of datastores per cluster 1
vSAN Cluster Maximum number of witness hosts 1
in a vSAN Stretched Cluster or 2-
Node Direct Connect configuration
vSAN Cluster Maximum number of data hosts in 2
a vSAN 2-Node Direct Connect
configuration
vSAN Cluster Stretched Cluster maximum 40 (20 per
number of data hosts site x 2)
vSAN virtual machines Virtual machines per host 200
vSAN virtual machines Virtual machines per cluster 6400
vSAN virtual machines Virtual machine virtual disk size 62 TB
vSAN virtual machines Disk stripes per object 12
vSAN virtual machines Percentage of flash read cache 100
reservation
vSAN virtual machines Percentage of object space 100
reservation
vSAN virtual machines vSAN networks/physical network 2
fabrics
vSAN iSCSI Target Number of iSCSI LUNs per Cluster 1024
vSAN iSCSI Target Number of iSCSI Targets per 128
Cluster
vSAN iSCSI Target Number of iSCSI LUNs per Target 256
vSAN iSCSI Target Max iSCSI LUN size 62 TB
vSAN iSCSI Target Number of iSCSI sessions per Node 128
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Category Limits Description

vSAN iSCSI Target iSCSI IO queue depth per Node 4096
vSAN iSCSI Target Number of outstanding writes per 128
iSCSI LUN
vSAN iSCSI Target Number of outstanding IOs per 256
iSCSI LUN
vSAN iSCSI Target Number of initiators who register 64
PR key for a iSCSI LUN
Virtual Volumes : Virtual Volumes (SCSI and NFS)

Virtual Volumes Storage Container size 2^63 Bytes

Virtual Volumes Data Virtual Volume Size 62 TB
Virtual Volumes Number of Virtual Volumes bound 4000 Note: limit is lower than published
to a host in past releases.
Virtual Volumes Number of PEs per host 256
Virtual Volumes Storage Container per host 256
Virtual Volumes : Virtual Volumes (NVMe)

Virtual Volumes Data Virtual Volume Size 62 TB

Virtual Volumes Number of Virtual Volumes bound 1000
to a host
Virtual Volumes Storage Containers per Host 50
Virtual Volumes Storage Container size 2^63 Bytes
Virtual Volumes

Network I/O Control (NIOC)

NIOC Number of resource pools 10000

NIOC Number of uplinks per vds 32
NIOC Number of uplinks per host 32
NIOC Number of vNIC per host 5120
NIOC Max pNIC bandwidth Approximate
ly 10 Gbits/
sec for 10G
pNIC
Storage Policies

Storage Policies Maximum number of VASA 1024

providers
Storage Policies Maximum number of rule sets in 16
virtual machine storage policy
Storage Policies Maximum capabilities in virtual 64
machine storage policy rule set
Storage Policies Maximum vSphere tags in virtual 128
machine storage policy
Storage Policies Maximum number of virtual 256
machine storage policies
Managed Virtual Disks

Improved Virtual Disks Maximum improved virtual disks 10000

ESXi Host Maximums : Compute Maximums

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Category Limits Description

Host CPU maximums Logical CPUs per host 960 -Increased the limit from 896 to 960
from 8.0U2 onwards (in
combination with 16 TB Host
Memory)
-Increased the limit from 768 to 896
from 7.0U2 onwards (in
combination with 24 TB Host
Memory)
Host CPU maximums NUMA Nodes per host 16
Virtual machine maximums Virtual machines per host 1024
Virtual machine maximums Virtual CPUs per host 4096
Virtual machine maximums Virtual CPUs per core 32 The achievable number of vCPUs
per core depends on the workload
and specifics of the hardware. For
more information, see the latest
version of Performance Best
Practices for VMware vSphere.
Fault Tolerance maximums Virtual disks 16
Fault Tolerance maximums Disk size 2 TB
Fault Tolerance maximums Virtual CPUs per virtual machine 8
Fault Tolerance maximums RAM per FT VM 128 GB
Fault Tolerance maximums Virtual machines per host 4
Fault Tolerance maximums Virtual CPU per host 8
ESXi Host Maximums : ESXi Graphics Maximums

GPU based Graphics Maximums Maximum number of shared 16

physical GPUs
ESXi Host Maximums : Cluster and Resource Pool Maximums

Cluster (all clusters including HA Virtual Machines per cluster 8000

and DRS)
Cluster (all clusters including HA Virtual machines per hos 1024
and DRS)
Cluster (all clusters including HA Powered-on virtual machine config 2048 This limit does not apply to virtual
and DRS) files per datastore in an HA cluster disks. A virtual machine enabled
with Fault Tolerance counts as two
virtual machines.
Cluster (all clusters including HA FT virtual machines per cluster 98
and DRS)
Cluster (all clusters including HA FT virtual machines vCPU per 256
and DRS) Cluster
Cluster (all clusters including HA Hosts per cluster 96 The new limit of 96 hosts is
and DRS) applicable from 7.0U1 onwards and
valid only for non-VSAN clusters.
7.0GA limit is 64 hosts per cluster
Cluster (all clusters including HA Clusters managed by vLCM 64 This limit is for Maximum number
and DRS) of cluster managed & remediated in
parallel using vSphere Lifecycle
Manager. 64 limit is supported from
7.0U1.
7.0GA limit is 15.
Resource Pool Resource pools per host 1600
Resource Pool Children per resource pool 1600
Resource Pool Resource pool tree depth 8 Additional 4 resource pools are
used by system internals
Resource Pool Resource pools per cluster 1600
ESXi Host Maximums : Networking Maximums

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Category Limits Description

Physical NICs 1 Gb Ethernet ports up to 32 Please consult your respective I/O
vendor for specific limits for their I/
O technologies.
Physical NICs 10 Gb Ethernet ports up to 16
Physical NICs 20 Gb Ethernet ports up to 16
Physical NICs Infiniband ports (refer to VMware N/A Mellanox Technologies InfiniBand
Community Support) HCA device drivers are available
directly from Mellanox
Technologies. Go to the Mellanox
Web site for information about
support status of InfiniBand HCAs
with ESXi. http://
www.mellanox.com
Physical NICs 25 Gb Ethernet ports 16 - Please consult your respective I/O
vendor for specific limits for their I/
O technologies with vSphere.

- It is recommended to have higher

system memory (512GB or higher)
for 16 or higher network ports
configuration.
Physical NICs 50 Gb Ethernet ports 8 Please consult your respective I/O
vendor for specific limits for their I/
O technologies with vSphere
Physical NICs 100 Gb Ethernet ports 4, up to 8 8 ports are tested on Broadcom
Thor 100G adapters and NVIDIA
Mellanox ConnectX adapters.
Physical NICs 40 Gb Ethernet ports 8 Please consult your respective I/O
vendor for specific limits for their I/
O technologies with vSphere
Physical NICs Combination of NICs between 10Gb up to 16 In the combination, you can have
to 100Gb and 1Gb (10Gb to any mix of different speed NICs and
100Gb) and * Combined total of 10Gb or higher
up to 16 speed NIC ports cannot exceed 16
(1Gb) ports * In addition, you can have up to 16
1Gb NIC ports
* Total number of individual speed
NIC ports cannot exceed their
allowed maximum (e.g., 40Gb NIC
ports cannot exceed 8 in the mix;
100Gb NIC ports cannot exceed 4
in the mix)
* Additional driver parameter
settings may be needed with some
I/0 vendor NICs, please consult IO
vendor for specific limits and
configuration
* 512GB or higher memory is
recommended for high network
ports configuration, please consult
with your server OEM for the
recommend configuration.
Physical NICs 200 Gb Ethernet Ports 4 Tested on NVIDIA Mellanox
ConnectX adapters 200 Gb Ethernet
ports
VMDirectPath limits VMDirectPath PCI/PCIe devices per 8
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Category Limits Description

SRIOV SR-IOV Number of virtual functions 1024 SR-IOV supports up to 43 virtual
per host functions on supported Intel NICs
and up to 64 virtual functions on
supported Emulex NICs. The actual
number of virtual functions
available for passthrough depends
on the number of interrupt vectors
required by each of them and on
the hardware configuration of the
host. Each ESXi host has a limited
number of interrupt vectors. When
the host boots, devices on the host
such as storage controllers,
physical network adapters, and USB
controllers consume a subset of
the total number of vectors.
Depending upon the number of
vectors these devices consume, the
maximum number of potentially
supported VFs could be reduced.
SRIOV SR-IOV Number of 10 G pNICs per 8
host
SRIOV VMDirectPath PCI/PCIe devices per 64 VMDirectPath PCI/PCIe devices per
virtual machine virtual machine is 64 from 8.0 U1
onwards
vSphere Standard and Distributed Total virtual network switch ports 4096
Switch per host (VDS and VSS ports)
vSphere Standard and Distributed Maximum active ports per host 1016
Switch (VDS and VSS)
vSphere Standard and Distributed Virtual network switch creation 4088
Switch ports per standard switch
vSphere Standard and Distributed Port groups per standard switch 512
Switch
vSphere Standard and Distributed Static/Dynamic port groups per 10000
Switch distributed switch
vSphere Standard and Distributed Ephemeral port groups per 1016
Switch distributed switch
vSphere Standard and Distributed Ports per distributed switch 60000
Switch
vSphere Standard and Distributed Distributed virtual network switch 60000
Switch ports per vCenter
vSphere Standard and Distributed Static/dynamic port groups per 10000
Switch vCenter
vSphere Standard and Distributed Ephemeral port groups per vCenter 1016
Switch
vSphere Standard and Distributed Distributed switches per vCenter 1024 We support 1024 VDS per vCenter
Switch from vSphere 8.0U1 onwards
vSphere Standard and Distributed Distributed switches per host 16
Switch
vSphere Standard and Distributed VSS portgroups per host 1000
Switch
vSphere Standard and Distributed LACP - LAGs per host 64
Switch
vSphere Standard and Distributed LACP - uplink ports per LAG (Team) 32
Switch
vSphere Standard and Distributed Hosts per distributed switch 2000
Switch
vSphere Standard and Distributed NIOC resource pools per vDS 64
Switch

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Category Limits Description

ESXi Host Maximums : Storage Maximums

Virtual Disks Virtual Disks per Host 2048

NAS NFS mounts per host 256 256 NFS3 datastores per host as
well as 256 NFS4.1 datastores per
host are supported.
E.g: same ESXi host can have 256
NFS3 and 256 NFS4.1 datastores
mounted. But individual limit of 256
NFS datastores is to be maintained
per protocol version.
Please refer to KB: https://
kb.vmware.com/s/article/91481 for
limitations w.r.t. nConnect.
NAS Hosts per NFS mount 128 Number of ESXi Hosts per NFS
mount. The value is 128 starting
with vSphere 7.0.3 and 64 for all
releases preceding 7.0.3.
FCoE Software FCoE adapters 4
Common VMFS Volume size 64 TB
Common VMFS Volumes per host 1024
Common VMFS Powered on virtual machines per 2048
VMFS volume
Common VMFS Concurrent vMotion operations per 128
VMFS volume
VMFS5 / VMFS-6 Raw Device Mapping size (virtual 62 TB
compatibility)
VMFS5 / VMFS-6 Raw Device Mapping size (physical 64 TB
compatibility)
VMFS5 / VMFS-6 Block size 1 MB 1MB is the default block size.
Upgraded VMFS5 volumes inherit
the VMFS3 block size value.
VMFS5 / VMFS-6 File size 62 TB
VMFS5 / VMFS-6 Files per volume Approximate
ly 130690
RDMA NVMe Namespaces per server 32
RDMA NVMe Number of paths to a namespace 4
RDMA NVMe Number of total paths on a server 128
RDMA NVMe Initiator ports per server 2
iSCSI LUNs per server 1024
iSCSI Cavium (Qlogic) 10 Gb iSCSI HBA 4
initiator ports per server
iSCSI NICs that can be associated or port 8
bound with the software iSCSI
stack per server
iSCSI Number of total paths on a server 4096
iSCSI Number of paths to a LUN 32
(software iSCSI and hardware
iSCSI)
iSCSI Cavium (Qlogic)10 Gb hardware 128
iSCSI HBA targets per adapter port
iSCSI Software iSCSI targets 256 The sum of static targets (manually
assigned IP addresses) and
dynamic targets (IP addresses
assigned to discovered targets)
may not exceed this number.
iSCSI LUN size 64 TB

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Category Limits Description

Fibre Channel - SCSI LUNs per host 1024
Fibre Channel - SCSI Number of paths to a LUN 32 Max number pf paths per
namespace = 8 (for release till
8.0.0)
= 32 for releases 8.0.1 and later.
Fibre Channel - SCSI Number of total paths on a server 4096
Fibre Channel - SCSI HBA ports 16
Fibre Channel - SCSI Number of HBAs of any type 8
Fibre Channel - SCSI LUN size 64 TB
Fibre Channel - SCSI LUN ID 0 to 16383
Fibre Channel - SCSI Targets per HBA 256
VMFS SCSI Hosts per volume 128
Fibre Channel - NVMe Namespaces per server 256
Fibre Channel - NVMe Number of paths to a namespace 32 Max paths per namespace = 8 (till
8.0.0 release), 32 starting 8.0.1
release
Fibre Channel - NVMe Number of total paths on a server 2048
Fibre Channel - NVMe Initiator ports per server 2
Fibre Channel - NVMe namespace size 64 TB
VMFS - Fibre Channel NVMe Hosts per volume 16
TCP NVMe Namespaces per server 256
TCP NVMe Number of paths to a namespace 32 Max number pf paths per
namespace = 8 (for release till
8.0.0)
= 32 for releases 8.0.1 and later.
TCP NVMe Number of total paths on a server 2048
TCP NVMe Initiator ports per server 2
TCP NVMe namespace size 64 TB
VMFS - TCP NVMe Hosts per volume 16
ESXi Host Maximums : Memory Maximums

ESXi Host Memory Maximums Maximum RAM per host 24 TB Please check VMware compatibility
guide for specific guidance for your
server platform
ESXi Host Memory Maximums Number of swap files 1 per virtual
machine
ESXi Host Persistent Memory Maximum Non-volatile memory per 12TB Please check VMware compatibility
Maximums host guide for specific guidance for your
server platform.
vSphere with Kubernetes : Cluster (ESXi clusters)

Cluster (ESXi clusters) Maximum number of ESXi clusters 50

enabled with vSphere with
Kubernetes per vCenter
Cluster (ESXi clusters) Maximum number of hosts per 64
WCP enabled cluster
Cluster (ESXi clusters) Maximum number of vSphere Pods 8000
(PodVM) per ESXi cluster
Cluster (ESXi clusters) Maximum number of vSphere Pods 1000
(PodVM) per ESXi node
vSphere Pod service Maximum number of containers per 10
vSphere Pod
vSphere Pod service Maximum Number of vSphere Pods 15000
(PodVM) per vCenter

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Category Limits Description

vSphere Pod service Maximum number of vSphere Pods 8000
(PodVM) per vCenter Namespace
vSphere Pod service Maximum number of Namespace 500
per vCenter
vSphere Registry service Concurrent parallel Push to multiple 50
Projects per Supervisor cluster
vSphere Registry service Concurrent Pull Image from 32
Registry to create pods per
Supervisor cluster
vSphere Registry service Maximum number of Projects 500
created from Registry per
Supervisor cluster
vSphere with Kubernetes Maximum number of persistence 1000
volumes per supervisor cluster
vSphere with Kubernetes Maximum number of persistence 10000
volumes per vcenter (across all
Kubernetes clusters)
VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid service for vSphere

Nodes Maximum number of worker nodes 150

in a single Tanzu Kubernetes
cluster
Nodes Maximum number of control plane 3
nodes in a single Tanzu Kubernetes
cluster
vSphere Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Maximum number of Kubernetes 190 190 (with NSX-T)
service clusters that can be created per 100 (with vSphere Network)
Supervisor Cluster
vSphere Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Maximum number of pods per 15000
service Kuberetes Cluster
vSphere Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Maximum number of PVCs per 60
service worker node
vSphere Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Maximum number of namespaces 1000
service per Kubernetes Cluster
vSphere Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Number of Kubernetes Clusters per 93
service Supervisor Namespace
vSphere Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Maximum number of persistence 5600
service volumes per tanzu cluster
vSphere Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Maximum number of persistence 10000
service volumes per vcenter (across all
Kubernetes clusters)
vCenter Server : Storage DRS

Cluster (all clusters including HA Virtual disks per datastore cluster 9000
and DRS)
Cluster (all clusters including HA Datastores per datastore cluster 64
and DRS)
Cluster (all clusters including HA Datastore clusters per vCenter 256
and DRS)
vCenter Server

vCenter Server Scalability Hosts per vCenter Server 2500

vCenter Server Scalability Powered-on virtual machines per 40000
vCenter Server
vCenter Server Scalability Registered virtual machines per 45000
vCenter Server
vCenter Server Scalability Linked vCenter Servers 15

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Category Limits Description

vCenter Server Scalability Hosts in linked vCenter Servers 15000
vCenter Server Scalability Powered-on virtual machines in 135000
linked vCenter Servers
vCenter Server Scalability Registered virtual machines in 150000
linked vCenter Servers
vCenter Server Scalability MAC addresses per vCenter Server 65536
(using default VMware OUI)
vCenter Server Scalability Hosts per vCenter Server managed 1000 We support up to 1000 hosts per
by vSphere Lifecycle Manager vCenter to be managed by vSphere
Lifecycle Manager.
vSphere Web Client User Interface Maximum mixed vSphere Client 100 Maximum number of H5C client
(HTML5) simultaneous connections connections supported
per VC
Concurrent operations vMotion operations per host (1 Gb/ 4
s network)
Concurrent operations vMotion operations per host (10 8
Gb/s network)
Concurrent operations vMotion operations per datastore 128
Concurrent operations Storage vMotion operations per 2
host
Concurrent operations Storage vMotion operations per 8
datastore
Concurrent operations Non-vMotion provisioning 8
operations per host
Content Library Total content library items per VC 2000
(across all libraries)
Content Library Biggest content library item size 1 TB
Content Library Total number of libraries per VC 1000
Content Library Total items per library 1000
Content Library Maximum number of concurrent 16 This limit is applicable to libraries
sync operations on the published published by vCenter Server and not
library's VC to third party libraries.
Content Library VMDK per OVA/OVF template 9
Host Profile Profile created 500
Host Profile Profile attached 500
vSphere+ (VMware Cloud Gateway) : VMware Cloud Gateway

Config Max limits for vSphere+ subscription with Gateway, latency and more
VMware Cloud Gateway Registered vCenters Per Cloud 8 Maximum number of vCenters that
Gateway can be registered per VMware
cloud Gateway
VMware Cloud Gateway Latency between VC and Gateway 300 ms Recommended Max latency
between vCenter and VMware
Cloud Gateway is to not exceed
300ms.
VMware Cloud Gateway Latency between Gateway and 300 ms Recommended maximum latency
VMware Cloud limits between VMware Cloud
Gateway and VMware Cloud is to
not exceed 300ms.

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