Configuration Limitations with VMware vShpere 5

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VMware provides detailed information on the configuration limitations (Configuration Maximums) with vSphere 5:

• http://www.vmware.com/files/de/pdf/vsp_50_config_max_de.pdf (German document)
• http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere5/r50/vsphere-50-configuration-maximums.pdf (English document)

This article shows details of limitations from these documents.

Storage Limits

The following limitations apply to the VMFS-3 (the newer VMFS-5 has other limitations, see the PDFs from VMware above):

• Volume size: 64 TB (For VMFS3-Volumes with 1 MB block size with a maximum size of 50 TB.)

VMFS-3 Blockgröße	maximale Dateigröße (Größe einer virtuellen HDD)
Block Size = 1 MB	256 GB minus 512 Byte
Block Size = 2 MB	512 GB minus 512 Byte
Block Size = 4 MB	1 TB minus 512 Byte
Block Size = 8 MB	2 TB minus 512 Byte

Additional Information

• This article shows which features are available with which licenses VMware vSphere 5 Editions Overview.
• Current version information is available at Current version information VMware vSphere 5.
• In this article you will find information regarding the limitations with VMware vSphere 4 Configuration Limitations with VMware vSphere 4.