The vCenter Server Appliance supports embedded vPostgres at full scale, 1000 host and 10,000 virtual machines and is the recommended database for the vCenter Server appliance. Upgrades where SQL express was installed will be converted to vPostgres. vPostgres on windows is limited to 20 hosts and 200 virtual machines. Supported databases for the windows installation are SQL 2008 R2, 20, Oracle 11g and 12c as well as the option to use an embedded vPostgres database. The exact details are still being finalized and we’ll let you know what that looks like closer to the downloads becoming available. SMP-FT will be supported for vCenter Server for some use cases. The use case for this would be to connect directly to a host to add CPU or RAM to your powered off vCenter Server. This allows you to edit settings available in compatibility level 5 aka vHW8 and have access to view vHW9+ settings. However, all new features from vSphere 5.1 onwards are available only in vSphere web clientįor troubleshooting purposes we have added read only support to the vSphere C# Client for compatibility levels 5.1, 5.5 and 6 aka virtual hardware 9, 10 and 11 features.
With the GA build, you can use the vSphere C# Client to connect to vCenter to do all activities just the way you would have done with previous releases. VSphere C# Client beta builds had only host client functionality enabled. The what’s new paper will be updated soon to reflect this. Additional scale testing has been done and that number is now 8000. This is in part my fault, when we wrote the What’s New in vSphere 6 white paper the number was 6000. In this post I aim to correct some of the information based on the beta builds that’s floating around out there.įirst off there’s confusion on the maximum number of virtual machines per cluster vSphere 6 supports. Some of that information is based on old beta builds and is much different than what we’ll see in the final product. With the Announcement of vSphere 6 this week there is a lot of information being published by various sources.