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VMware ESX 3 - Maximum Storage size details, a quick reminder

March 21st, 2008 • Lee Wynne • 4 comments • Related • Filed Under

Physical HBA Storage adapters

  •  16 HBA’s per ESX host (dual port, quad port or 8 port)
  • Provides 32 paths to a single LUN
  • Total amount of paths supported 1024
  • 256 LUNS can be presented to a single ESX server (128 during installation, the remainder can be added later)
  • 256 VMFS partitions per ESX host.

VMFS Sizing 

  • The current maximum size for a single VMFS volume is 64TB
  • A VMFS volume will support a maximum file size of 2TB 
  • Maximum number of files supported 30,000

VMDK Sizing

  • Maximum VMDK size is currently 2TB (with 8MB block size)
  • Maximum VMDK size is currently 256GB (with 1MB block size)

From within a Virtual Machine

  • Maximum virtual HBA’s per virtual machine is 4
  • Maximum targets per virtual HBA 15
  • Maximum VMDK’s (virtual machine disks) per virtual machine 60 (windows and linux) 

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