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VMware vSphere Product Documentation

vSphere Virtual Machine Administration

Available with Virtual
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Updated Information Machine Compatibility
 Introduction to VMware vSphere
Virtual Machines
Settings
 Deploying Virtual Machines Last Updated 07/22/2019 20    

 Deploying OVF and OVA Templates

 Using Content Libraries
 Configuring Virtual Machine
Hardware
 Virtual Machine Compatibility
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The virtual machine compatibility setting determines the virtual hardware available to the
virtual machine, which corresponds to the physical hardware available on the host. You can
review and compare the hardware available for different compatibility levels to help you
determine whether to upgrade the virtual machines in your environment.

Set the Default Compatibility

Supported Features for Virtual Machine Compatibility
for Virtual Machine Creation

Schedule a Compatibility ESXi ESXi ESXi ESXi

Upgrade for a Single Virtual 6.5 ESXi 5.5 5.1 5.0 ESX/ESXi ESX/ESXi
and 6.0 and and and and 4.x and 3.5 and
Machine Feature later later later later later later later

Determine the Default Virtual

Hardware version 13 11 10 9 8 7 4
Machine Compatibility Setting
in the vSphere Web Client
Maximum 6128 4080 1011 1011 1011 255 64
memory (GB)
Hardware Features Available
with Virtual Machine
Maximum number 128 128 64 64 32 8 4
Compatibility Settings of logical
processors
 Virtual CPU Configuration
Maximum number 128 128 64 64 32 8 1
 Virtual Memory Configuration of cores (virtual
CPUs) per socket

Maximum SCSI 4 4 4 4 4 4 4
adapters

Bus Logic Y Y Y Y Y Y Y
adapters

LSI Logic adapters Y Y Y Y Y Y Y

LSI Logic SAS Y Y Y Y Y Y N

adapters

VMware Y Y Y Y Y Y N
Paravirtual
controllers

SATA controllers 4 4 4 N N N N

NVMe Controller s 4 N N N N N N

Virtual SCSI disk Y Y Y Y Y Y Y

SCSI passthrough Y Y Y Y Y Y Y

SCSI hot plug Y Y Y Y Y Y Y

support

IDE nodes Y Y Y Y Y Y Y

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