vSphere 6.5 Configuration Maximums – Compare to Earlier Versions- Part 2

We’ve reviewed some of vSphere 6.5 configuration maximums in the previous post:

http://www.teimouri.net/vsphere-6-5-configuration-maximums/

And we’ll review and compare the rest of configuration maximums in this post.

Networking Maximums

Item vSphere 5.5 vSphere 6.0 vSphere 6.5
vSphere Standard and Distributed Switch
Total virtual network switch ports per host (VDS and VSS ports) 4096 4096 4096
Maximum active ports per host (VDS and VSS) 1016 1016 1016
Virtual network switch creation ports per standard switch 4088 4088 4088
Port groups per standard switch 512 512 512
Static/Dynamic port groups per distributed switch 6500 10000 10000
Ephemeral port groups per distributed switch 1016 1016 1016
Ports per distributed switch 60000 60000 60000
Distributed switches per vCenter 128 128 128
Distributed switches per host 16 16 16
Hosts per distributed switch 1000 1000 2000

Cluster and Resource Pool Maximums

Item vSphere 5.5 vSphere 6.0 vSphere 6.5
Cluster (all clusters including HA and DRS)
Hosts per cluster 32 64 64
Virtual Machines per cluster 4000 8000 8000
Virtual machines per host 512 1024 1024
Powered-on virtual machine 2048 2048 2048
FT virtual machines per cluster 98 128
FT virtual machines vCPU per Cluster 256 256
Resource pools per host 1600 1600 1600
Children per resource pool 1100 1100 1100
Resource pools per cluster 1600 1600 1600

vCenter Server Maximums

Item vSphere 5.5 vSphere 6.0 vSphere 6.5
vCenter Server Scalability
Hosts per vCenter Server 1000 1000 2000
Powered-on virtual machines per vCenter Server 10000 10000 25000
Registered virtual machines per vCenter Server 15000 15000 35000
Linked vCenter Servers 10 10 10
Number of host per datacenter 500 500 2000
MAC addresses per vCenter Server 65536 65536 65536

vSphere 6.5 will support double ESXi host per vCenter.

2.5 x Powered-on virtual machine and 2 x registered virtual machine per vCenter server.

These are not all configuration maximums but I’ve mentioned all important items.

Davoud Teimouri

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