vSphere 6.5 Configuration Maximums – Compare to Earlier Versions- Part 2

by Davoud Teimouri · Published 20/11/2016 · Updated 04/04/2019

We’ve reviewed some of vSphere 6.5 configuration maximums in the previous post:

http://www.teimouri.net/vsphere-6-5-configuration-maximums/

And we’ll review and compare the rest of configuration maximums in this post.

On This Post:

Networking Maximums

Item	vSphere 5.5	vSphere 6.0	vSphere 6.5
vSphere Standard and Distributed Switch
Total virtual network switch ports per host (VDS and VSS ports)	4096	4096	4096
Maximum active ports per host (VDS and VSS)	1016	1016	1016
Virtual network switch creation ports per standard switch	4088	4088	4088
Port groups per standard switch	512	512	512
Static/Dynamic port groups per distributed switch	6500	10000	10000
Ephemeral port groups per distributed switch	1016	1016	1016
Ports per distributed switch	60000	60000	60000
Distributed switches per vCenter	128	128	128
Distributed switches per host	16	16	16
Hosts per distributed switch	1000	1000	2000

Item	vSphere 5.5	vSphere 6.0	vSphere 6.5
Cluster (all clusters including HA and DRS)
Hosts per cluster	32	64	64
Virtual Machines per cluster	4000	8000	8000
Virtual machines per host	512	1024	1024
Powered-on virtual machine	2048	2048	2048
FT virtual machines per cluster		98	128
FT virtual machines vCPU per Cluster		256	256
Resource pools per host	1600	1600	1600
Children per resource pool	1100	1100	1100
Resource pools per cluster	1600	1600	1600

Item	vSphere 5.5	vSphere 6.0	vSphere 6.5
vCenter Server Scalability
Hosts per vCenter Server	1000	1000	2000
Powered-on virtual machines per vCenter Server	10000	10000	25000
Registered virtual machines per vCenter Server	15000	15000	35000
Linked vCenter Servers	10	10	10
Number of host per datacenter	500	500	2000
MAC addresses per vCenter Server	65536	65536	65536