VMware Engine node types

A Google Cloud VMware Engine private cloud is a collection of vSphere clusters created with a set of dedicated isolated bare metal hardware nodes in a region. These nodes provide the compute, memory, and storage required to run VMware ESXi, and are the basic unit of consumption of Google Cloud VMware Engine. This document details the node types, their resource capacity and availability in the regions.

VMware Engine supports private clouds with mixed node families (ve1 and ve2) in some regions. While a private cloud can contain mixed node families, each cluster within that private cloud must contain nodes of the same type. For more information, see Region availability. To create a new cluster of a different node family, contact Cloud Customer Care.

A vSphere cluster must have nodes with identical storage. Google Cloud VMware Engine allows creation of a cluster with a mix of hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) and storage only node types from the same node family. You can create a cluster with ve2-standard-128 and ve2-standard-so node types, but not mix two different HCI node types in the same cluster.

Node types

The following sections list node types that are available when creating a VMware Engine private clouds or clusters.

Hyperconverged node types

The following table lists HCI node types that are available when creating a VMware Engine private cloud or a cluster.

Node type	vCPUs/Node^§	Memory/Node (GiB)	Storage/Node (TB)^*
ve1-standard-72	72	768	19.2
ve2-mega-128^†	128	2048	51.2
ve2-mega-112^†	112	2048	51.2
ve2-mega-96^†	96	2048	51.2
ve2-mega-80^†	80	2048	51.2
ve2-mega-64^†	64	2048	51.2
ve2-large-128^†	128	2048	38.4
ve2-large-112^†	112	2048	38.4
ve2-large-96^†	96	2048	38.4
ve2-large-80^†	80	2048	38.4
ve2-large-64^†	64	2048	38.4
ve2-standard-128^†	128	2048	25.5
ve2-standard-112^†	112	2048	25.5
ve2-standard-96^†	96	2048	25.5
ve2-standard-80^†	80	2048	25.5
ve2-standard-64^†	64	2048	25.5
ve2-small-128^†	128	2048	12.8
ve2-small-112^†	112	2048	12.8
ve2-small-96^†	96	2048	12.8
ve2-small-80^†	80	2048	12.8
ve2-small-64^†	64	2048	12.8

Storage-only node types

The following table lists storage-only node types that are available when creating a VMware Engine private cloud or cluster.