Is the number of sessions limited?

[bhoke]

I'm using the vi perl toolkit to build a web application that allows users to connect to a VirtualCenter and interact with their Virtual Machines. They have to login at the beginning and a session is used to keep the connection to the VC.

My question is: Is there a limit number of sessions that can be established to one VC? In this case it may be possible that 100 or more users are connected at the same time to one VC.

Thanks, Benjamin

[pwiltsey]

Given that the number of remote console connections is limited to 10 ( per http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vi3_301_201_config_max.pdf ) and approx 1500 VMs per VC for performance and management reasons, the theoretical there of 15000 seems rather high to me. I have seen other limits for this posted, but there is also a limit on the number of database connections from VC. I realize there is not a specific corelation from DB connections to VC sessions necessarily, especially given possible connection pooling.

I created a test script with to spawn Vim::login as many times as possible. There does seem to be a default limit of 95 Active Sessions.

I imagine this is a tunable in the webservices perhaps or tomcat.

[bhoke]

Thanks for your helpful answer. Is there an official statement from Vmware?

[bhoke]

I also identified a limit of round about 100 active sessions. Is there a way to increase this number?