| vSphere 5.0 | vSphere 5.1 | vSphere 5.5 | |
| Virtual CPUs per virtual machine | 32 | 64 | 64 |
| RAM per virtual machine | 1 TB | 1 TB | 1 TB |
| Virtual SCSI targets per virtual machine | 60 | 60 | 60 |
| Virtual Disks per virtual machine | 60 | 60 | 60 |
| Virtual NIC per virtual machine | 10 | 10 | 10 |
| Concurrent remote console connection per virtual machine | 40 | 40 | 40 |
| Logical CPUs per host | 160 | 160 | 320 |
| Virtual machine per host | 512 | 512 | 512 |
| Virtual CPUS per host | 2048 | 2048 | 4096 |
| Virtual CPUs per core | 25 | 25 | 32 |
| FT Virtual Disks | 16 | 16 | 16 |
| RAM per FT virtual machine | 64 | 64 | 64 |
| FT virtual machine per host | 4 | 4 | 4 |
| FT virtual CPUs per virtual machine | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| RAM per host | 2 TB | 2 TB | 4 TB |
| No of swap files per virtual machine | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Swap file size | 1 TB | 1 TB | NA |
| Virtual Disks per host | 2048 | 2048 | 2048 |
| LUNs per server | 256 | 256 | 256 |
| Broadcom 1Gb iSCSI HBA initiator ports per server | 4 | 4 | 4 |
| Broadcom 10Gb iSCSI HBA initiator ports per server | 4 | 4 | 4 |
| No. of total paths on a server | 1024 | 1024 | 1024 |
| No. of paths to a LUN | 8 | 8 | 8 |
| Software iSCSI targets | 256 | 256 | 256 |
| LUNs per host | 256 | 256 | 256 |
| LUN size | NA | 64 TB | 64 TB |
| No. of paths to a LUN | 32 | 32 | 32 |
| No. of total paths on a server | 1024 | 1024 | 1024 |