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VMware vSphere Design Essentials

By : Swapnil A Kambli, Puthiyavan Udayakumar
Book Image

VMware vSphere Design Essentials

By: Swapnil A Kambli, Puthiyavan Udayakumar

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (13 chapters)
VMware vSphere Design Essentials
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

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

ISCSI...