Design configurations for ESXi
In this section, you will see the key configurations that are required while designing VMware ESXi. All of the VMware ESXi hosts should be identical in terms of hardware specifications and should be built and configured reliably, to diminish the amount of operational effort involved with patch management, and to provide a building block solution. The following table illustrates the maximum configuration required while designing ESXi on your infrastructure:
|
Item |
Designed to support |
Max supported |
|---|---|---|
|
Host CPU maximums |
Logical CPUs per ESXi host |
320 |
|
NUMA Nodes per ESXi host |
16 | |
|
Virtual machine maximums |
Virtual machines per ESXi host |
512 |
|
Virtual CPUs per ESXi host |
4096 | |
|
Virtual CPUs per core |
321 | |
|
Fault Tolerance maximums |
Virtual disks per ESXi host |
16 |
|
Virtual CPUs per VM |
1 | |
|
RAM per FT VM |
64 GB | |
|
Virtual machines per ESXi host |
4 | |
|
Memory |
RAM per ESXi host |
4 TB |
|
Number of swap files per VM |
1 | |
|
Virtual Disks |
Virtual Disks per ESXi host |
2048 |
|
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