vSphere 6.0 blog – Virtual Machine Virtual Hardware (vHW 11)

Another short blog post on the vSphere 6.0 theme. This one will describe the new features and the configuration options for the new virtual machine (VM) virtual hardware version 11 that comes with ESXi 6.

Configuration

• 128 vCPUs
• 4 TB RAM to 12 TB RAM (depending on partner)
• 62 TB VMDK size ? (not yet verified)
• 10 Virtual NICS ? (not yet verified)
• 60 virtual SCSI targets ? (not yet verified)
• 32 serial ports

Features

• Hot-add RAM now vNUMA aware
• Extended support for virtual graphics including Nvidia vGPU
• WDDM 1.1 GDI acceleration features
• xHCI 1.0 controller compatible with OS X 10.8+ xHCI driver
• Serial and parallel ports can now be removed