max vm for vcenter 5.0

[umarzuki]

on upgrade note:

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Express is intended for use with small deployments of up to 5 hosts or 50 virtual machines

does 50 VMs imply to 50 running VMs or total of VMs regardless whether they are running or not?

[Villag3Idiot]

I would hazard to guess that it would be a limit for the total number of virtual machines, regardless of their power state. That is just an educated guess however, maybe someone can shed some official light on this?

[schepp]

The 50 VMs is not a fixed limit. With the SQL Express you are limited by the max size of the Database. In SQL Express 2005 and 2008 the limit was 4GB, in SQL Express 2008 R2 the limit was raised to 10GB.

To give you an example:One of my databases is about 6,5GB big right now, containing 10 Hosts, 70 VMs and the VUM-Data.

Regards

[admin]

Hi Everyone

Let me clarify here.

Please refer the kb article.

http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2003790

This is intended so as to have a better performance of the vCenter. It doesnot stops you from having more VM, but the more the inventory objects more the data loaded used by DB and vCenter and hence this recommendations.

This article will give you the best practices   on vCenter 5.0 and for better performance of the vcenter based on your inventory how much db space might be required.

Thanks

Aakash Jacob

[f10]

Hi,

In addition to what AakashJ said, if a VM is not powered on it consumes no resources and stays in the inventory so IMO the recommendation is for 50 powered on VMs. If you have more than 50 VMs but not all of them are powered off VC related tasks like search etc. might get affected due to the DB performance issue.

Long story short, this is just a recommendation/best practise and not a hard limit

Regards,
Arun

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