Does the max vsphere client connections include api connections

[Herschelle]

In the Configurations Maximums guides there are limits for the maximum number of concurrent vSphere Client connections that a vCenter servers supports.

For example

vCenter 4.0 32-bit OS Server is 15

and 64-bit OS server is 30

Is this specifically for vSphere Client connections only or does this include any api connections. So if I have connected via Powershell to vCenter, does this count towards the concurrent connections count?

[WaffleSniffer]

Hi

In the vSphere client from the Home > Administration > Sessions screen, you can see all connections.

I just tested having both the vSphere client and the PowerCLI connected to the vCenter server and both conections show separately, and there is no way to differentiate which is which as far as I can see. So I guess that they do count towards the concurrent connections...

Hope this helps.

Adam

[Herschelle]

You are correct, forgot that the api connections do show up in the connections list. I guess a part of my question is whether a vSphere Client connection put additional overhead on the vCenter server?

This question really starts to become moot with the release of vCenter 4.1 which allows 100 connections.

In our current 3.5 and 4.0 environments we are hitting the limits for connections constantly, and that is not including the third party monitoring applications and internally run PowerCLI script connections.

[Herschelle]

Logged a call with VMware support, with a few back and forths their response eventually was as follows:

"Yes, it does count in relation to the maximum connections."