Limted t0 32GB RAM

[colbyk]

I could be wrong but i believe in ESXI 7.0 the memory restrictions where lifted of the free/trial version. I'm currently running ESXI in a lab environment but have been unable to use more then 32GB or RAM for all of my VM, i am running ESXI on a Dell R420 with 64GB of RAM. It's a pain becuase i am barely able to run 1 VM without it maxing out the current memory... Windows Server 2022 is sucking it all down. I would like to put all 64GB of RAM to use if possible. Unsure if its due to VMware restrictions or if it's a config issue, i even tried to remove the license to get it back into eval mode in hope that that would correct it.

[a_p_]

There's not such limit in current ESXi versions.

>>> but have been unable to use more then 32GB or RAM for all of my VM, ...
Can you please provide some more detials? Any warnings, or error messages that occur?

Please keep in mind that ESXi also needs some memory, so that you don't want to assing all memory to a VM which maxes out the memory.

André

[colbyk]

Of what I've seen on other forums somewhere prior to V5.0 there was a restriction on memory, limiting it to 32GB... must be incorrect. attached below is a Screenshot of the host memory... the available memory all VMs have to share.

 

 

[a_p_]

VMware indeed introduced such a limitation some time ago, but removed it again after customer many complaints.
The free edition is currently only limited with a restricted API, a 8 vCPU per VM maximum, and it can't be managed by vCenter Server.

As mentioned before, ESXi needs some memory itself for it's operating system, and management, so depending on the VMs you want to run on the host, you may add additional physical memory.

André