Free ESXi 5.0 Hypervisor will allow 32GB of physical RAM per server? 8GB per VM?

Posted by Paul Braren on Aug 3 2011 (updated on Aug 17 2013) in
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    • This second article seems to indicate that for the free hypervisor (ESXi 5.0?), the previous 8GB limit is lifted, it's now a much more reasonable 32GB of physical RAM.  But then again, notice this comment that was quickly posted:

    Posted by: William Roush | 08/03/2011 at 03:16 PM

    Question of clarification, regarding the free ESXi version: It says vRAM allocation is now 32 GB, but there's that asterisk saying limited to 32 GB. The FAQ (which looks like it was updated) states it's still at 8 GB, with a limit of 32 GB of pRAM?

    http://www.vmware.com/products/vsphere-hypervisor/faq.html

    Thoughts?

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