vSphere 6.7 core storage “what’s new” series:
- What’s New in Core Storage in vSphere 6.7 Part I: In-Guest UNMAP and Snapshots
- What’s New in Core Storage in vSphere 6.7 Part II: Sector Size and VMFS-6
- What’s New in Core Storage in vSphere 6.7 Part III: Increased Storage Limits
- More to come…
In ESXi 6.0 and earlier, a total of 256 devices and 1,024 logical paths to those devices were supported. While this may seem like a tremendous amount of devices to some, there were plenty who hit it. In vSphere 6.5, ESXi was enhanced to support double both of those numbers. Moving to 512 devices and 2,048 logical paths.
In vSphere 6.7, those numbers have doubled again to 1,024 and 4,096 logical paths. See the limits here:
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