vmware important port, configuration maximum and others

               VMware important Ports:-

TCP/UDP-902 -Default port used by the vCenter Server system to send 

data to managed hosts. Managed hosts also send a regular heartbeat 

over UDP port 902 to the vCenter Server system.

TCP-8000 -Requests from vMotion

TCP-8100 , 8200 -Traffic between ESXi hosts for vSphere Fault Tolerance (FT)

TCP-8182 - Traffic between ESXi hosts for vSphere High Availability (HA)

TCP- 7005 ,7009  -vCenter Single Sign-On

TCP-9443- vSphere Web Client HTTPS

TCP 9090    -vSphere Web Client HTTP

              Vsphare 5.5 maximum:-

Virtual Machine Maximums:-

	ESX 6.0	ESX 5.5	ESX 5.1	ESX 5				ESX 3	ESX 2	ESX 1
Virtual CPUs per virtual machine	128	64	64	32				4	2	1
RAM per virtual machine	4TB	1TB	1TB	1TB				16GB	3,6GB	2GB
Virtual SCSI adapters per virtual machine	4	4	4	4				4	4	4
Virtual SATA adapters per virtual mechine	4	4	4	4
Virtual disk size	62TB	62TB	2TB	2TB				2TB

ESXi Host Maximums:-

	ESX 6.0	ESX 5.5	ESX 5.1	ESX 5					ESX 2	ESX 1
Logical CPUs per host	480	320	160	160					16	8
Virtual machines per host	2048	512	512	512					80	64
Virtual CPUs per host	4096	4096	2048	2048					80	64
									8	8
RAM per host	12TB	4TB	2TB	2TB					64GB	64GB

vCenter Server Maximums:-

vCenter Server Maximums	ESX 5.5	ESX 5.1	ESX 5			ESX 3.5	ESX 3
Hosts per vCenter Server	1000	1000	1000			200	200
Powered on virtual machines	10000	10000	10000			2000
Number of host per datacenter	500	500	500

 Network Maximums:-

	ESX 5.5	ESX 5.1	ESX 5		ESX 4.0	ESX 3.5	ESX 3
Total virtual network switch ports per host	4096	4096	4096		4096	127
Maximum active ports per host	1016	1050	1016		1016	1016
Virtual network switch creation ports	4088	4088	4088		4088
Port groups	512	256	256		512	512
Distributed virtual network switch ports per vCenter	60000	60000	30000		6000
					512
Hosts per VDS	500	500	350		64
Distributed switches per vCenter	128	128	32		16
						32	32

Fault Tolerance Maximums:-

	ESX 6.0	ESX 5.5	ESX 5.1	ESX 5.0
Virtual disks	16	16	16
Virtual CPUs per virtual machine	4	1	1	1
RAM per FT VM	64GB	64GB	64GB	64GB
Virtual machines per host	4	4	4	4