Concurrent VMs Deployment

[RanjnaAggarwal]

How many VMs we can deploy from template concurrently?

[Troy_Clavell]

I have never tried to see how many can be deployed off a template at once.  We typically do a couple at a time.  If you have a VAAI capable array to offload some of the I/O, you should be ok.

I don't see a maximum listed in the http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere5/r51/vsphere-51-configuration-maximums.pdf

[vFantastic]

I use the below method and normally don't do more than 2 at a time. I have seen weird issues with doing more than 8 at a time.

http://www.knightusn.com/home/vmdeploymentwithpowercliandcsv

-vFantastic

[jrmunday]

8 per host ...

Concurrent Operations

Concurrent vMotion operations per datastore 128

Concurrent Storage vMotion operations per datastore 8

Concurrent Storage vMotion operations per host 2

Concurrent non‐vMotion provisioning operations per host 8