You are familiar with some terms like server virtualization, desktop virtulization and cloud computing. But maybe you don’t know that you can turn your server or PC to a mainframe computer. ESX/ESXi supporting wide range of OS, they are supporting desktop OS, server OS, mobile OS and also mainframe OS such as z/OS.
Now, VMWare ESXi hardware version (September 2013) is 9.0 and memory limit is 1011 GB for this version.
You can see memory limit in the below table:
ESXi/ESX virtual machines | Hardware version | Memory limit |
5.1 | 9 | 32-bit and 64-bit virtual machines: 1011 GB All specified memory is accessible to the guest. The guest accounts for space obscured by PCI devices. |
5.0 | 8 | 32-bit and 64-bit virtual machines: 1011 GB All specified memory is accessible to the guest. The guest accounts for space obscured by PCI devices. |
4.x | 7 | 32-bit and 64-bit virtual machines: 255 GB All specified memory is accessible to the guest. The guest accounts for space obscured by PCI devices. |
3.5 | 4 | 32-bit and 64-bit virtual machines: 65532 MB |
3.x | 4 | 32-bit and 64-bit virtual machines: 16384 MB |
2.x | 3 | 32-bit and 64-bit virtual machines: 3600 MB |
