Operations Differences for various vSphere & SRM versions

I wrote an article back in 2013 for vSphere & SRM 5.5  – http://bit.ly/29uhLSh so I thought of updating it with version 6.0
Component
6
5.5
5.1
5
Virtual CPUs per virtual machine (Virtual SMP)
128
64
64
32
RAM per virtual machine
4 TB
1TB
1TB
1TB
Virtual disk size
62 TB
62TB
2TB
2TB
Virtual Disks per virtual machine
per Host 2048
per Datastore Cluster 9000
60
60
60
Logical CPUs per host
480
320
160
160
Virtual machines per host
1024
512
512
512
Virtual CPUs per host
4096
4096
2048
2048
Virtual CPUs per core
32
32
25
25
RAM per host
6 TB
4TB
2TB
2TB
LUN size
64 TB
64TB
64TB
64TB
Raw Device Mapping size (virtual compatibility)
62TB
62TB
2TB
2TB
Raw Device Mapping size(physical compatibility)
64TB
64TB
64TB
64TB
Virtual machines per cluster
8000
4000
4000
3000
Resource pools per cluster
1600
1600
1600
1600
Hosts per vCenter Server
1000
1000
1000
1000
Number of host per datacenter
500
500
500
500
Powered-on virtual machines per vCenter Server
10000
10000
10000
10000
Registered virtual machines per vCenter Server
15000
15000
15000
15000
Number of host per datacenter
500
500
500
500
Distributed switches per vCenter
128
128
128
32
Single Sign On (SSO)
Required
Required
Required
Not Available
VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM)
Protected virtual machines in total
5000
1000
1000
1000
Protected virtual machines in a single protection group
500
500
500
500
Protection groups per recovery plan
250
250
150
150
Datastore groups
255
255
150
150
Simultaneously running recovery plans
10
10
10
10

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