Hardware features available with virtual machine compatibility settings
Article ID: 318970
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Products
VMware vSphere ESXi
Issue/Introduction
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 determine whether to upgrade the virtual machines in your environment. For Virtual Machine Hardware version compatibility, see ESXi/ESX hosts and compatible virtual machine hardware versions in vSphere 5.x (2007240).
Environment
VMware vSphere ESXi 6.5
VMware vSphere ESXi 7.0.0
VMware vSphere ESXi 6.0
VMware vSphere ESXi 6.7
VMware vSphere ESXi 5.0
VMware ESXi 4.1.x Installable
VMware ESXi 4.1.x Embedded
VMware vSphere ESXi 5.1
VMware vSphere ESXi 5.5
VMware vSphere ESXi 7.0.0
VMware vSphere ESXi 6.0
VMware vSphere ESXi 6.7
VMware vSphere ESXi 5.0
VMware ESXi 4.1.x Installable
VMware ESXi 4.1.x Embedded
VMware vSphere ESXi 5.1
VMware vSphere ESXi 5.5
Resolution
Supported features for virtual machine compatibility
| Hardware | ESXi 7.0 U2 | ESXi 7.0 U1 | ESXi 7.0 | ESXi 6.7 U2 | ESXi 6.7 | ESXi 6.5 and later |
| Hardware version | 19 | 18 | 17 | 15 | 14 | 13 |
| Maximum memory (GB) | 24512 | 24512 | 6128 | 6128 | 6128 | 6128 |
| Maximum number of logical | 768 | 768 | 256 | 256 | 128 | 128 |
| processors | ||||||
| Maximum number of cores (virtual CPUs) per socket | 64 | 64 | 64 | 64 | 64 | 64 |
| Maximum SCSI adapters | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 |
| Bus Logic adapters | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| LSI Logic adapters | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| LSI-Logic SAS adapters | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| SATA adapters | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| VMware Paravirtual controllers | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Virtual SCSI disk | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| SCSI passthrough | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| SCSI hot plug support | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| IDE nodes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Virtual IDE disk | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Virtual IDE CDROMs | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| IDE hot plug support | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| Maximum NICs | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 |
| PCNet32 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| VMXNet | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| VMXNet2 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| VMXNet3 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| E1000 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| E1000e | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| USB 1.x and 2.0 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| USB 3.0 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| USB 3.1 SuperSpeedPlus | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No |
** Supported only for Passthrough from client computers to virtual machines on Linux, Windows 8 and later, and Windows Server 2012 and later guests.
* Supports 30 adapters
-For more information check the link:https://configmax.vmware.com/
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