ESX/ESXi Hardware Version And Virtual Machine Memory Limit
You are familiar with some terms like server virtualization, desktop virtulization and cloud computing. But maybe you don’t know that you can turn your server or PC to a mainframe computer. ESX/ESXi supporting wide range of OS, they are supporting desktop OS, server OS, mobile OS and also mainframe OS such as z/OS.
Now, VMWare ESXi hardware version (September 2013) is 9.0 and memory limit is 1011 GB for this version.
You can see memory limit in the below table:
|
ESXi/ESX virtual machines |
Hardware version |
Memory limit |
|
5.1 |
9 |
32-bit and 64-bit virtual machines: 1011 GB All specified memory is accessible to the guest. The guest accounts for space obscured by PCI devices. |
|
5.0 |
8 |
32-bit and 64-bit virtual machines: 1011 GB All specified memory is accessible to the guest. The guest accounts for space obscured by PCI devices. |
|
4.x |
7 |
32-bit and 64-bit virtual machines: 255 GB All specified memory is accessible to the guest. The guest accounts for space obscured by PCI devices. |
|
3.5 |
4 |
32-bit and 64-bit virtual machines: 65532 MB |
|
3.x |
4 |
32-bit and 64-bit virtual machines: 16384 MB |
|
2.x |
3 |
32-bit and 64-bit virtual machines: 3600 MB |
