two Virtual Centers or one?

[GMarsh]

Some information has gone around that there is a VM limit in Virtual Center of about 2000 vm's. Not sure if this is true or not, but if we consolidate the two virtual centers we have currently we will be well over that 2000 mark if that is a true limit.

anyone have an opinion if we should keep two virtual centers or consolidate to one if the number of vm's will be over 2000 servers?

[SBC350 · Accepted solution]

Yes it is true

200 ESX and 2000 VM

vi3_esx35_vc25_rel_notes.html

"Management of up to 200 hosts and 2000 virtual machines-VirtualCenter 2.5 can manage many more hosts and virtual machines than previous releases, scaling the manageability of the virtual datacenter to up to 200 hosts and 2000 virtual machines. "[vi3_esx35_vc25_rel_notes.html|http://www.vmware.com/support/vi3/doc/vi3_esx35_vc25_rel_notes.html]

[GMarsh]

so basically we will not have a choice but to have two Virtual Centers.

[TomHowarth]

vCenter 2.5 has a hardlimit of 200 hosts and 2000 guests, this has however been raised to 3000 guests in vCenter 4. and this can grow to 30000 guest with the ability to create Linked vCenter instances.

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