An administrator is building a large virtual machine that will require as many vCPUs as the host can support. An ESXi 6.x host has these specifications:
Six 32-core Intel Xeon Processors
256 GB of Memory
512 GB Local disk space using VMFS5
What is the maximum number of virtual CPUs that the virtual machine can be allocated?
A.
64
B.
128
C.
192
D.
256
Explanation:
Explanation/Reference:
B is correct:
https://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere6/r60/vsphere-60-configuration-maximums.pdf
Why not C? 32*6 ?
vCPU available on ESXi host 6×32 = 192
Maximum vCPU supported per VM: 128
https://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere6/r60/vsphere-60-configuration-maximums.pdf
Thanks for clearing that up.
Agreed, 128 is correct. Good question.
It’s only to say You will never use 128 vCPU…..because servers with 6 socket and cpu with 32 core now are not available 🙂
There is another similar question, but with following parameters:
• Four 24-core Intel Xeon Processors
• 256 GB of Memory
• 512 GB Local disk space using VMFS5
In which case the answer is limited to the maximum available cores, hence 96
why?
Agreed — good question !!!