1. vSphere 5 – Maximums – Virtual Machine Compute vCPUs per VM 32 Memory vRAM per VM 1TB Swap per VM 1TB Storage SCSI Adapto rs per VM 4 SCSI Targets per Adapto r 15 SCSI Targets per VM 60 Disk Size 2TB minus 512B IDE Control lers per VM 1 IDE Device s per VM 4 Floppy Control lers per VM 1 Floppy Disks per VM 2 Network vNICs per VM 10 Peripheral Ports Parallel Ports per VM 3 Serial Ports per VM 4 VMDirectPath PCI/ PCIe per VM 2 SCSI Targets per VM 60 Misc. Concur rent Remot e Consol es 40

2. vSphere 5 – Maximums – ESXi Hosts Compute Logical CPUs per Host 160 VMs per Host 512 vCPUs per Host 2048 vCPUs per Core 25 Fault Tolerance Virtual Disks 16 vCPUs 1 RAM per FT VM 64GB FT VMs per Host 4 Memory RAM per Host 2TB No. of swap files 1 per VM Swap File Size 1TB Dept. / Author / Date

3. vSphere 5 – Maximums – ESXi Hosts Storage iSCSI Physical LUNs per server 256 iSCSI HBA initiator ports per Host Qlogic 1Gb 4 Broadcom 1Gb 4 Broadcom 10Gb 4 NICs that can be associated or port bound with the software iSCSI stack per server 8 Number of total paths on a server 1024 to a LUN (software iSCSI and hardware iSCSI) 8 Qlogic iSCSI: dynamic targets per adapter port 64 static targets per adapter port 62 Broadcom 1Gb iSCSI HBA targets per adapter port 64 Broadcom 10Gb iSCSI HBA targets per adapter port 128 Software iSCSI targets 256

4. vSphere 5 – Maximums – ESXi Hosts Storage Virtual Disks per Host 2048 NAS NFS Mounts per Host 256 Fiber Channel LUNs per Host 256 LUN ID 255 Number of Paths to LUN 32 Number of total paths on a server 1024 Number of HBAs of any type 8 HBA ports 16 Targets per HBA 256 FCoE Software FCoE Adapters 4 Dept. / Author / Date

5. vSphere 5 – Maximums – ESXi Hosts Storage VMFS Volumes per Host 256 Hosts per Volume 64 Powered -on VMs per VMFS Volume 2048 VMFS3 Volume Size 64TB Raw device mapping size (virtual compati bility) 2TB minus 512 bytes (physic al compati bility) 2TB minus 512 bytes6 Block size 8MB File size (1MB block size) 256GB (2MB block size) 512GB (4MB block size) 1TB (8MB block size) 2TB minus 512 bytes Files per volume Approxi mately 30,720 VMFS5 Volume size 64TB Raw Device Mapping size (virtual compati bility) 2TB minus 512 bytes (physic al compati bility) 64TB Block size File size 2TB minus 512 bytes Files per volume Approxi mately 130,69 0 Dept. / Author / Date 1MB

6. vSphere 5 – Maximums – ESXi Hosts Storage Concurrent Operations vMotions per Datastore 128 Storage vMotion Per Datastore 8 Per Host 2 Non-vMotion provisioning Operations 8 Dept. / Author / Date