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What are the ESXi Hardware Requirments?

(CPU, MEM, NET) What are the vSphere Client Hardware Requirements? (CPU, MEM, HDD, NET) What are the vCenter Server Hardware Requirements? JVM Heap Settings? Host Configuration Requirements for vMotion (Licencing, Storage, Network - 6 things) Max vCPUs / VM? Max RAM / VM? MAX Swap / VM? Max SCSI adapters / VM? Max SCSI targets / adapter? max SCSI targets / VM? Max Virtual Disk / VM? Max Virtual Disk Size? Max IDE controllers / VM? Max IDE devices / VM? Max Floppy controllers? Floppy devices / vm? Max virtual nics / vm? Max usb controllers / vm? max usb devices / vm? Max USB 3.0 devices / vm? Max serial ports / vm? Max video memory / vm?

ESXi Maximums
logical CPU? VMs? vCPUs? vCPUs / Core Fault Tolerance Maximums (CPU, Memory, Virtual Disks)? Max RAM? Max swap files per VM? Max virtual disk per host? Max iSCSI LUNs? Max total iSCSI paths? (total for entire host) Max paths to a iSCSI LUN? Max NFS mounts? Mac FC LUNs? Max paths to a FC LUN? Max Total FC Paths per host? Max FC HBA? Max targets per FC HBA? Max FCoE software adapters? Max VMFS Volumes per host? Max Hosts per volume? Max power on VMs per volume? Max VMFS volume size? Max Physical RDM in VMFS3? Max Virtual RDM in VMFS3? Max Physical RDM in VMFS5? Max Virtual RDM in VMFS5?

What is the Max VMFS3 FILE SIZE for the following data block sizes (1MB,2MB,4MB,8MB)?

Max conncurrent vMotions / Datastore? Max Storage vMotions / Datastore? Max Storage vMotions / Host? Max VMDirectPath devices per host? Max VMDirectPath devices per VM? Max Virtual Switch Ports? Max Active vSwitch Ports? Max port groups per vSS? Max port groups per vDS? Max vDS switches per vCenter server? Max vMotions per host (1 Gbps)? Max vMotions per host (10 Gbps)?

Cluster and Resource Pool Maximums


Hosts per cluster? VMs / clusters? VMs / Host? Max host HA failover? Max resource pools per cluster? Max resource pools per host?

vCenter Server Maximums


Max host per vCenter server? Max registered VMs per vCenter? Max powered on VMs per vCenter? Max Linked vCenters? Max host in linked servers? How many connconcurrent vCenter clients can be active? Max hosts per Datacenter?

Update Manager Server Maximums


Host scans in a single vCenter Server? VM scans in a single vCenter server? Cisco VDS Updates and deployments? vmware tool scans per host? vmware tool upgrades per host vm hardware scans per host? vm hardware upgrades per host? hardware and tool upgrades per VUM? Hardware and tool scans per VUM? ESXi Host upgrades per VUM ESXi Host upgrades per cluster

Storage DRS Maximums


max virtuals disk per datastore cluster? Max datastores per datastore cluster? Max datastore clusters per vCenter

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