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Some More vCloud Director Configuration Maximums

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By: David Hill, Senior Cloud Consultant for the VMware Global Centre of Excellence in Cloud Infrastructure

A question was asked yesterday regarding some of the configuration maximums that are currently not listed in the vSphere 5 configuration maximums document. Having discussed with vCloud Engineering and Product Management it has been confirmed that these numbers are used to provide the supported scale of vCloud Director and can be published to the wider community.

The information listed will assist consultants and architects to better understand the supported scale when designing there public and private vCloud infrastructures.

# of Console sessions (concurrent)

300

# of Console sessions (active)

100

# of Cells

10

# of Logical Networks

10156

# of vApp Networks

2987

# of External Networks

524

# of Isolated Org Networks

2264

# of Public Org Networks

2005

# of Routed Org Networks

2376

# of Network Pools

10

# of Catalogs

1024

# of Media

1024

 

For the # of console sessions, concurrent is open but idle (think of not displaying screen updates), while Active is sessions that are in use.

The # of cells is the maximum vCD cells you can have in one load balanced group.

David Hill is currently a Senior Cloud Consultant for the VMware Global Centre of Excellence in Cloud Infrastructure. David has been a self-employed IT Consultant and Architect for around 15 years, working on projects for large consultancies and financial institutions. Dave blogs at his personal blog, Virtual-Blog.com, where he hopes to provide readers with an informative reference site when designing/deploying or troubleshooting virtualisation and cloud technologies.

3 thoughts on “Some More vCloud Director Configuration Maximums”

  2. Hi John,
    Yes, the concurrent/active console sessions are per cell. Kinda makes sense too, when looking at the scalability of vCloud Director.

  3. Which is correct?
    The maximum configuration is 300 concurrent sessions and 100 active sessions?
    Or
    The maximum configuration is 300 concurrent sessions or 100 active sessions?