Configuration Maximums for various vSphere & SRM versions

I wrote an article back in 2013 for vSphere & SRM 5.5  http://bit.ly/297GXQ3 so I thought of updating it with version 6.0
Component
6
5.5
5.1
5
4.1
4
Virtual CPUs per virtual machine (Virtual SMP)
128
64
64
32
8
8
RAM per virtual machine
4 TB
1TB
1TB
1TB
255GB
255GB
Virtual disk size
62 TB
62TB
2TB
2TB
2TB
2TB
Virtual Disks per virtual machine
per Host 2048
per Datastore Cluster 9000
60
60
60
60
60
Logical CPUs per host
480
320
160
160
160
20
Virtual machines per host
1024
512
512
512
320
320
Virtual CPUs per host
4096
4096
2048
2048
512
512
Virtual CPUs per core
32
32
25
25
25
20
RAM per host
6 TB
4TB
2TB
2TB
1TB
1TB
LUN size
64 TB
64TB
64TB
64TB
2TB
2TB
Raw Device Mapping size (virtual compatibility)
62TB
62TB
2TB
2TB
2TB
2TB
Raw Device Mapping size(physical compatibility)
64TB
64TB
64TB
64TB
2TB
2TB
Virtual machines per cluster
8000
4000
4000
3000
3000
1280
Resource pools per cluster
1600
1600
1600
1600
512
512
Hosts per vCenter Server
1000
1000
1000
1000
1000
200
Number of host per datacenter
500
500
500
500
400
100
Powered-on virtual machines per vCenter Server
10000
10000
10000
10000
10000
2000
Registered virtual machines per vCenter Server
15000
15000
15000
15000
15000
3000
Number of host per datacenter
500
500
500
500
400
100
Distributed switches per vCenter
128
128
128
32
32
16
Single Sign On (SSO)
Required
Required
Required
Not Available
Not Available
Not Available
VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM)
Protected virtual machines in total
5000
1000
1000
1000
1000
1000
Protected virtual machines in a single protection group
500
500
500
500
500
500
Protection groups per recovery plan
250
250
150
150
150
150
Datastore groups
255
255
150
150
150
150
Simultaneously running recovery plans
10
10
10
10
3
3

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