The size of a virtual disk is limited to 8 TB. However, your hardware version, bus type, and controller type also impact the size of your virtual disks.
| Workstation Hardware Version |
Bus Type |
Controller Type |
Maximum Disk Size |
| 10, 11, 12, 14 |
IDE |
ATAPI |
8192 GB (8TB) |
| 10, 11, 12, 14 |
SCSI |
BusLogic |
2040 GB (2TB) |
| 10, 11, 12, 14 |
SCSI |
LSI Logic |
8192 GB (8TB) |
| 10, 11, 12, 14 |
SCSI |
LSI Logic SAS |
8192 GB (8TB) |
| 10, 11, 12, 14 |
SATA |
AHCI |
8192 GB (8TB) |
| 14 |
NVMe |
NVMe |
8192 GB (8TB) |
| 9, 8, 7, 6.5 |
All |
All |
2040 GB (2TB) |
| 6.0, 5 |
All |
All |
950 GB |
To discover your SCSI controller type, open the virtual machine .vmx file. The value of the setting
scsi0.virtualDev determines your SCSI controller type.
| Value |
SCSI Controller Type |
| Blank or not present |
BusLogic |
| lsilogic |
LSI Logic |
| lsisas1068 |
LSI Logic SAS |
