vSphere 6.5 Configuration Maximums – What’s New?

vSphere 6.5 Configuration Maximums – What’s New?

vSphere 6.5 released with lot of new features that most of them were waiting for. vSphere 6.5, the latest version of its industry-leading virtualization platform.  This new release of vSphere features a dramatically simplified experience, comprehensive built-in security, and a universal app platform for running any app. vSphere 6.5 makes the vCenter Server Appliance 6.5 the fundamental building block of a vSphere environment. The core vSphere architecture is built around this easy to deploy and manage approach that reduces operational complexity by embedding key functionality into a single location. There are lot of new features along with vSphere 6.5 Configuration Maximums also increased as compared to vSphere 6.0.

vSphere 6.5 Configuration Maximums

vCenter Server 6.5 supports upto 2000ESXi Hosts and 25,000 Virtual Machines (It was 1000 Hosts & 10,000 VM in vCenter 6.0)

ESXi 6.5 host now supports up to 576 physical CPUs  and 12 TB RAM as same vSphere 6.0 (In vSphere 6.0, It was 320 CPUs)

vSphere 6.5 VM’s will support  upto 128 vCPUs and 6TB vRAM (which was also 128 vCPU’s and 4 TB of memory in vSphere 6.0)

vSphere 6.5 continuous to support 64 Tb Datastores as same as in vSphere 6.0

vSphere 6.5 supports 512 LUNs per Server and Number of total paths on the Server is 2048 ( which was 256 LUNs & 1024 Paths per server in vSphere 6.0)

Supports 2 GB of Video Memory per Virtual Machine in vSphere 6.5 (512 MB in vSphere 6.0)

Fault Tolerance (FT) in vSphere 6.5 remains supported with 4 vCPUs and 64 GB memory (which was only 1 vCPU in vSphere 5.5 & 4 vCPU in vSphere 6.0)

With vSphere 6.5, Support for NVMe adapters & Targets:

        4 Virtual NVMe adapters per virtual machine
       15Virtual NVMe targets per virtual SCSI adapter
       60 Virtual NVMe targets per virtual machine

I hope we all are impressed with the Configuration maximums of vSphere 6.5. Let’s prepare our environment to build Monster and Mission critical VM’s with vSphere 6.5.