6. Configuration Limits

6. Configuration Limits
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This section contains the configuration maximums for Oracle VM. The limits presented in the following tables represent tested, recommended limits, and are fully supported by Oracle.

Table 5. Virtual machine maximums

Item	Maximum
Virtual CPUs	128
Virtual RAM on x86 (32-bit) guests	63 GB
Virtual RAM on x86_64 (64-bit) guests	1 TB
Paravirtualized Guests
Virtual NICs	31
Virtual disks	51
Hardware Virtualized Guests
Virtual NICs	8
IDE disks (including CDROM and virtual disks)	4
SCSI disks	7

Table 6. Oracle VM Server maximums

Item	Maximum
CPUs	160
RAM	2 TB
Virtual Machines	128

Table 7. Server pool and cluster maximums

Item	Maximum
Oracle VM Servers in a server pool	32

Table 8. Storage maximums

Item	Maximum
LUNs in a storage array	1,000
OCFS2 volume size	64 TB
Files per OCFS2 volume	30,000
Virtual disk	10 TB
Virtual IDE drives per device	4

Table 9. Network maximums

Item	Maximum
NICs ports per network bond	2
Network bonds per Oracle VM Server	5

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