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What is the maximum number of VSwitches we can create in VSphere 4.x

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Prashant

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You can have max of 248 Standard vSwitches per host in vSphere 4.x.

For reference,

Configuration Maximums vSphere 4.0: http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere4/r40/vsp_40_config_max.pdf

Configuration Maximums vSphere 4.1: http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere4/r41/vsp_41_config_max.pdf

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Prashant wrote:

What is the maximum number of VSwitches we can create in VSphere 4.x?

The numbers for all these maximums are now very high, as noted above. Also you get have 512 portgroups for each vSwitch and a total of 1016 active vNIC connections on each host.

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Thank You.

-Prashant

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