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VMware vCenter Server 6.5 Resource Requirements

Just a quick blog post about the vCenter Server 6.5 Appliance resource requirements in terms of vCPUs, RAM and Storage per deployment size option. And yes, this is mostly for my personal documentation purposes since the information can also be found in the VMware vSphere 6.5 official documentation,

Anyway, the following Deployment Sizes are available:

  • Tiny
  • Small
  • Medium
  • Large
  • X-Large

ESXi host and Virtual Machine capacity per Deployment Size

The below table lists the compute (CPU and RAM) requirements per deployment size.

Deployment Size vCPUs RAM (GB)
Tiny 2 10
Small 4 16
Medium 8 24
Large 16 32
X-Large 24 48

Compute requirements per Deployment Size

The below table lists the ESXi host and VM capacity per vCSA 6.5 deployment size

Deployment Size ESXi Hosts VMs
Tiny 10 100
Small 100 1 000
Medium 400 4 000
Large 1 000 10 000
X-Large 2 000 35 000

Storage requirements per Deployment Size

The below table lists the storage requirements per deployment size

Deployment Size Storage Size Default (GB) Storage Size Large (GB) Storage Size Large (GB)
Tiny 250 775 1 650
Small 290 820 1 700
Medium 425 925 1 805
Large 640 990 1 870
X-Large 980 1030 1 910

 

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