Hardware features available with virtual machine compatibility settings
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Hardware features available with virtual machine compatibility settings

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Article ID: 318970

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Updated On: 11-28-2024

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

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


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