With the upcoming release of VMware vSphere 5.5, there are a few neat platform scalability enhancements. The support for physical hardware has been doubled which makes VMware vSphere available for large enterprise-class hardware:
Enhancements
- 320 logical CPUs per Host (Up from 160)
- 4TB Memory (Up from 2TB)
- 16 NUMA Nodes per host (Up from 8)
- 4096 vCPUs per host (Up from 2048)
- 62TB VMDK Size (Up from 2TB)
- ...more to come