Virtual Machine configuration maximums
I’m in IT for more then 12 years and during that period I learned, never to trust something another professional tells you. So as I am studying for my VCP410 exam, coming Friday, I came across the Virtual Machine configuration maximums. I saw the info at Simon Long’s blog, took his VCP vSphere 4 Practice Exam and also took notes.
When running through all configuration maximums I remembered the ‘never trust anyone‘ motto and as I’m in between project I thought it would be cool to check/confirm the presented maximums. Some seem so ridiculous that you can hardly believe them to be true.
After 10 minutes of editing the virtual machine configuration I got my ‘MAXVM‘ and I must say VMware delivers one awesome virtual machine. I can’t imagine anyone using a virtual machine which approaches these configuration maximums.
To sum it up:
- Max 255GB memory;
- Max 8 vCPUs;
- Max 2 IDE controllers;
- Max 2 floppy drives;
- Max 4 IDE devices;
- Max 3 parallel ports;
- Max 4 serial ports;
- Max 10 network adapters;
- Max 1 USB controller;
- Max 4 SCSI controllers;
- Max 60 SCSI devices.
And what does such an enormous virtual machine look like. Check this out.
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Hi Eric,
Your max config is just as stated in the max config pdf document for vSphere made and released by VMware.
As it’s part of the vcp exam I didn’t expect it to be different. Good to see my expectation is valid.
Hi Eric,
Your max config is just as stated in the max config pdf document for vSphere made and released by VMware.
As it’s part of the vcp exam I didn’t expect it to be different. Good to see my expectation is valid.
I know. I just wanted to check and see what such a ‘enormous’ VM looks like.
I know. I just wanted to check and see what such a ‘enormous’ VM looks like.
Looks nice Erik!
Now find a piece of hardware that can run about twenty of these ;)
Looks nice Erik!
Now find a piece of hardware that can run about twenty of these ;)
Now.. Power on VM :)
Now.. Power on VM :)
@beeman: That would be nice idd! I’ve heard you have some of these servers available ;)
@sanderdaems: I tried but I get an error stating that I don’t have enough resources to satify the configured failover level for HA. Very strange ;)
@beeman: That would be nice idd! I’ve heard you have some of these servers available ;)
@sanderdaems: I tried but I get an error stating that I don’t have enough resources to satify the configured failover level for HA. Very strange ;)