Sunday, May 03, 2020

vSphere 7 - Storage Requirements for the vCenter Server Appliance

I have upgraded vSphere in my home lab and realized that VCSA 7.0 storage requirements increased significantly.

Here are the requirements of vCenter Server Appliance 6.7


Here are the requirements of vCenter Server Appliance 7.0


You can see the difference by yourself. VCSA 7.0 requires roughly 30%-60% more storage than VCSA 6.7. It is good to know it especially for home labs where hardware resources are limited or during logical designs of new environments where you do some math calculation to plan hardware requirements.

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