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 |
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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 |