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Table 2‑1. Hardware Requirements for a vCenter Server Appliance with an Embedded or
External Platform Services Controller (Continued)
Number of vCPUs Memory
Large environment (up to 1,000 hosts or
10,000 virtual machines)
16 32 GB
X-Large environment (up to 2,000 hosts or
35,000 virtual machines)
24 48 GB
Note If you want to add an ESXi host with more than 512 LUNs and 2,048 paths to the
vCenter Server Appliance inventory, you must deploy a vCenter Server Appliance for a large or x-large
environment.
Hardware Requirements for the Platform Services Controller Appliance
The hardware requirements for a Platform Services Controller appliance are 2 vCPUs and 4 GB memory.
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
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