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Storage Requirements for the vCenter Server Appliance and
Platform Services Controller Appliance
When you deploy the vCenter Server Appliance or Platform Services Controller appliance, the ESXi host
or DRS cluster on which you deploy the appliance must meet minimum storage requirements. The
required storage depends not only on the size of the vSphere environment and the storage size, but also
on the disk provisioning mode.
Storage Requirements for the vCenter Server Appliance
The storage requirements are different for each vSphere environment size and depend on your database
size requirements.
Table 2‑2. Storage Requirements for a vCenter Server Appliance with an Embedded or
External Platform Services Controller
Default Storage Size Large Storage Size X-Large Storage Size
Tiny environment (up to 10
hosts or 100 virtual machines)
250 GB 775 GB 1650 GB
Small environment (up to 100
hosts or 1,000 virtual
machines)
290 GB 820 GB 1700 GB
Medium environment (up to
400 hosts or 4,000 virtual
machine)
425 GB 925 GB 1805 GB
Large environment (up to 1,000
hosts or 10,000 virtual
machines)
640 GB 990 GB 1870 GB
X-Large environment (up to
2,000 hosts or 35,000 virtual
machines)
980 GB 1030 GB 1910 GB
Note The storage requirements include the requirements for the VMware Update Manager that runs as
a service in the vCenter Server Appliance.
Storage Requirements for the Platform Services Controller Appliance
The storage requirement for a Platform Services Controller appliance is 60 GB.
Software Requirements for the vCenter Server Appliance and
Platform Services Controller Appliance
The VMware vCenter Server Appliance and Platform Services Controller appliance can be deployed on
ESXi hosts 5.5 or later, or on vCenter Server instances 6.0 or later.
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