Foreknowledge :
If you are using the VMware vCenter
Server Appliance, beginning with vSphere 5.x you can download vCenter Server as
a virtual machine appliance. With the VMware vCenter Server Appliance, the
necessary components are contained in a pre-configured virtual machine. This
article outlines the minimum requirements and configurations for a successful
implementation.
For more information, see the vSphere
Installation and Setup Guide. The documentation contains definitive information.
If there is a discrepancy between the documentation and this article, assume
that the documentation is correct.
The VMware
vCenter Server Appliance can be deployed only on hosts that are running
ESX/ESXi 4.x or later.
This table
outlines the VMware vCenter Server Appliance requirements:
Component
|
Requirement
|
Disk
storage on the host machine
|
- At
least 7 GB
- A
maximum of 80 GB
|
Memory in
the vCenter Server Appliance
|
- Very
small inventory (10 or fewer hosts, 100 or fewer virtual machines)
– at least 4 GB
- Small inventory (10-100 hosts
or 100-1000 virtual machines) – at least 8 GB
- Medium inventory (100-400
hosts or 1000-4000 virtual machines) – at least 13 GB
- Large inventory (more than
400 hosts or 4000 virtual machines) – at least 17 GB
- VMware vCenter Server
Appliance 5.1 / 5.5
Medium inventory (100-400 hosts or 1000-4000 virtual machines) – at
least 16 GB
- VMware vCenter Server
Appliance 5.1 / 5.5
Large inventory (more than 400 hosts or 4000 virtual machines) – at
least 24 GB
|
This table
outlines the recommended JVM Heap settings for VMware vCenter Server
Appliance vCenter Server Appliance Hardware:
vCenter
Server Appliance Hardware
|
Tomcat
|
Query
Service (QS)
|
Policy
Based Storage Management (SPS)
|
Small
inventory (1-100 hosts or 1-1000 virtual machines)
|
1 GB
|
2 GB
|
512 MB
|
Medium
inventory (100-400 hosts or 1000-4000 virtual machines)
|
2 GB
|
4 GB
|
1 GB
|
Large
inventory (more than 400 hosts or 4000 virtual machines)
|
3 GB
|
6 GB
|
2 GB
|
VMware
vCenter Server Appliance 5.1
Large inventory (more than 400 hosts or 4000 virtual machines)
|
3 GB
|
12 GB
|
2 GB
|