Hardware Requirements For Vcenter Server, The Vsphere Web Client , Vcenter Inventory Service, And Vcenter Single Sign-On - VMware VS4-ENT-PL-A - vSphere Enterprise Plus Setup Manual

Hardware Requirements for vCenter Server, the vSphere Web Client ,
vCenter Inventory Service, and vCenter Single Sign-On
vCenter Server host machines must meet hardware requirements.
vCenter Single Sign-On, the vSphere Web Client , vCenter Inventory Service,
and vCenter Server Hardware Requirements
You can install vCenter Single Sign-On, the vSphere Web Client, vCenter Inventory Service, and vCenter
Server on the same host machine (as with vCenter Simple Install) or on different machines. See
The follosing tables list the hardware requirements for vCenter Single Sign-On and Inventory Service,
running on separate host machines.
Table 2-3
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Table 2-4
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If you use Custom Install to install vCenter Single Sign-On, vCenter Inventory Service, and vCenter Server
on the same host machine, the vCenter Single Sign-On, and Inventory Service memory and disk storage
requirements are in addition to the requirements for vCenter Server. See
Table 2‑2. Minimum Hardware Requirements for Simple Install Deployment of vCenter Single Sign-On, the
vSphere Web Client , vCenter Inventory Service, and vCenter Server
Host Hardware for Simple Install Deployment
Processor
Memory
Disk storage
Network speed
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Table 2-5.
Minimum Requirement
Intel or AMD x64 processor with two or more logical cores,
each with a speed of 2GHz.
12GB.
Memory requirements are higher if the vCenter Server
database runs on the same machine as vCenter Server.
vCenter Server includes several Java services: VMware
VirtualCenter Management Webservices (tc Server),
Inventory Service, and Profile-Driven Storage Service.
When you install vCenter Server, you select the size of
your vCenter Server inventory to allocate memory for these
services. The inventory size determines the maximum JVM
heap settings for the services. You can adjust this setting
after installation if the number of hosts in your
environment changes. See the recommendations in
Table 2-7.
100GB recommended.
40-60GB of free disk space are required after installation,
depending on the size of your inventory. You should
provide more space to allow for future growth of your
inventory.
Disk storage requirements are higher if the vCenter Server
database runs on the same machine as vCenter Server,
depending on the size of the database.
In vCenter Server 5.x, the default size for vCenter Server
logs is 450MB larger than in vCenter Server 4.x. Make sure
the disk space allotted to the log folder is sufficient for this
increase.
1Gbps
Chapter 2 System Requirements
Table 2-2.
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