January 2018
Intermediate to advanced
574 pages
14h 44m
English
Content preview from VMware vSphere 6.5 Cookbook - Third Edition
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Hypervisor – VMware ESXi 6.5
ESXi Hypervisor is the abstraction layer that enables running of different virtual machines sharing the same physical hardware resources. VMware ESXi 6.5 has significant scalability enhancements. Let's compare and contrast the scalability improvements since ESXi 5.5:
| Feature | vSphere 5.5 | vSphere 6.0 | vSphere 6.5 |
| Logical processors (CPUs) | 320 | 480 | 576 |
| Physical memory | 4 TB | 6 TB – 12 TB | 12 TB |
| NUMA nodes | 16 | 16 | 16 |
| vCPUs | 4,096 | 4,096 | 4,096 |
| Storage LUNs per host | 256 | 256 | 512 |
| VMFS datastore per host | 256 | 256 | 512 |
| Virtual machines per host | 512 | 1,024 | 1,024 |
Refer to the VMware vSphere 6.5 Configuration Maximums guide for more information regarding the scalability maximums at https://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere6/r65/vsphere-65-configuration-maximums.pdf ...
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