Skytap service limits

Your Skytap account has limits for VMs and environments for each region, as well as network and other limits for the overall account. This page provides details about those limits, both account-wide and for all Skytap regions.

For additional networking details, see What IP addresses and port ranges does Skytap use?.

If you’re a primary administrator and you need specific capabilities that exceed these limits, contact support@skytap.com. Include your name, email address, and the name of your organization. If you’re a standard user or administrator, work with your primary administrator to request an increase.

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VM limits

Each VM has the following virtual hardware and metadata limits:

Item Limit
CPU See Regional Limits below
RAM See Regional Limits below
Storage See Regional Limits below
Network adapters (NIC) 10
IP addresses per NIC 255
VM name 33 Unicode characters
Labels 30
Tags 100
Notes 30
IOPS for x86 VMs

IOPS for x86 VMs scale with the amount of RAM allocated to the VM, depending on region.

US-West

RAM-based IOPS scaling for x86 VMs in US-West.

VM RAM IOPS
1 GiB 250
2 GiB 325
3 GiB 400
4 GiB 475
5 GiB 550
6 GiB 625
7 GiB 700
8 GiB 775

Many factors affect storage performance, including file size and the number of files acted upon. These values represent the maximum IOPS capabilities of a VM.

All other regions

RAM-based IOPS scaling for x86 VMs in all other regions (APAC-2, AU-Sydney-I-1, CAN-Toronto, CN-HongKong-M-1, DE-Frankfurt-I-1, EMEA, NL-Amsterdam-M-1, SG-Singapore-M-1, UK-London-M-1, US-Central, US-East-2, US-Texas-M-1, US-Virginia-M-1).

VM RAM IOPS VM RAM IOPS VM RAM IOPS
1 GiB 300 9 GiB 1100 17 GiB 1900
2 GiB 400 10 GiB 1200 18 GiB 2000
3 GiB 500 11 GiB 1300 19 GiB 2100
4 GiB 600 12 GiB 1400 20 GiB 2200
5 GiB 700 13 GiB 1500 21 GiB 2300
6 GiB 800 14 GiB 1600 22 GiB 2400
7 GiB 900 15 GiB 1700 23 GiB 2500
8 GiB 1000 16 GiB 1800 24 GiB 2600

Environment and template limits

Each environment or template has the following virtual hardware and metadata limits:

Item Limit
VMs 512
Networks 30
Sharing Portals 100
Name 254 Unicode characters
Labels 30
Tags 100
Notes 20
Environment network limits

Each network within an environment has the following limits:

Item Limit
ICNR and NAT tunnels 100

Asset limits

Each asset has the following metadata limits:

Item Limit
Notes 20
Tags 100
Labels 30

Account-wide limits

Each account has the following limits across the entire account (all regions):

Item Limit
Import and export jobs 5 – total concurrent jobs, import/export combined
Import job 50 VMs – total combined size (uncompressed) 1 TB
VM copy processes 100 (concurrent)
Organizational
Item Limit
Users 7,500
Projects 1,000
Groups 100
Departments 100
Administrative
Item Limit
Notification rules 100 – each of which can be sent to 100 recipients
Label Categories 100 active, plus up to 100 inactive
CSV Usage reports 10,000 (in a seven-day period)
All other CSV reports 10,000 (in a seven-day period)
Schedules 14,000 (per calendar week)
Schedule actions 20 (per Schedule)

Regional limits

Depending on the type, each VM has the following limits within the regions specified:

APAC-2
API name: sng1r1
x86  
Max. vCPUs 24
Max. RAM 512 GiB
Max. storage 4 TB
Max. disk size 4 TB
Max. # of disks 15

AU-Sydney-I-1
API name: syi1r1
x86  
Max. vCPUs 24
Max. RAM 512 GiB
Max. storage 4 TB
Max. disk size 4 TB
Max. # of disks 15

CAN-Toronto
API name: tor1r1
x86     IBM i     AIX     Linux on Power  
Max. vCPUs 12   Max. vCPUs 4   Max. vCPUs 16   Max. vCPUs 16
Max. RAM 256 GiB   Max. RAM 512 GiB   Max. RAM 512 GiB   Max. RAM 512 GiB
Max. storage 4 TB   Max. storage 32 TB   Max. storage 32 TB   Max. storage 32 TB
Max. disk size 4 TB   Max. disk size 2047 GB   Max. disk size 2 TB   Max. disk size 2 TB
Max. # of disks 15   Max. # of disks 32   Max. # of disks 32   Max. # of disks 32
      Max. # of disk sets 5   Max. # of disk sets 5   Max. # of disk sets 5

CN-HongKong-M-1
API name: hkm1r1
x86     IBM i     AIX     Linux on Power  
Max. vCPUs 24   Max. vCPUs 4   Max. vCPUs 16   Max. vCPUs 16
Max. RAM 512 GiB   Max. RAM 512 GiB   Max. RAM 512 GiB   Max. RAM 512 GiB
Max. storage 4 TB   Max. storage 32 TB   Max. storage 32 TB   Max. storage 32 TB
Max. disk size 4 TB   Max. disk size 2047 GB   Max. disk size 2 TB   Max. disk size 2 TB
Max. # of disks 15   Max. # of disks 32   Max. # of disks 32   Max. # of disks 32
      Max. # of disk sets 5   Max. # of disk sets 5   Max. # of disk sets 5

DE-Frankfurt-I-1
API name: fri1r1
x86  
Max. vCPUs 24
Max. RAM 512 GiB
Max. storage 4 TB
Max. disk size 4 TB
Max. # of disks 15

EMEA
API name: lon1r1
x86     IBM i     AIX     Linux on Power  
Max. vCPUs 24   Max. vCPUs 4   Max. vCPUs 16   Max. vCPUs 16
Max. RAM 512 GiB   Max. RAM 256 GiB   Max. RAM 256 GiB   Max. RAM 256 GiB
Max. storage 4 TB   Max. storage 32 TB   Max. storage 32 TB   Max. storage 32 TB
Max. disk size 4 TB   Max. disk size 2047 GB   Max. disk size 2 TB   Max. disk size 2 TB
Max. # of disks 15   Max. # of disks 32   Max. # of disks 32   Max. # of disks 32
      Max. # of disk sets 5   Max. # of disk sets 5   Max. # of disk sets 5

IE-Dublin-M-1
API name: dbm1r1
x86     IBM i     AIX     Linux on Power  
Max. vCPUs 24   Max. vCPUs 4   Max. vCPUs 16   Max. vCPUs 16
Max. RAM 512 GiB   Max. RAM 512 GiB   Max. RAM 512 GiB   Max. RAM 512 GiB
Max. storage 4 TB   Max. storage 32 TB   Max. storage 32 TB   Max. storage 32 TB
Max. disk size 4 TB   Max. disk size 2047 GB   Max. disk size 2 TB   Max. disk size 2 TB
Max. # of disks 15   Max. # of disks 32   Max. # of disks 32   Max. # of disks 32
      Max. # of disk sets 5   Max. # of disk sets 5   Max. # of disk sets 5

NL-Amsterdam-M-1
API name: amm1r1
x86     IBM i     AIX     Linux on Power  
Max. vCPUs 24   Max. vCPUs 4   Max. vCPUs 16   Max. vCPUs 16
Max. RAM 512 GiB   Max. RAM 512 GiB   Max. RAM 512 GiB   Max. RAM 512 GiB
Max. storage 4 TB   Max. storage 32 TB   Max. storage 32 TB   Max. storage 32 TB
Max. disk size 4 TB   Max. disk size 2047 GB   Max. disk size 2 TB   Max. disk size 2 TB
Max. # of disks 15   Max. # of disks 32   Max. # of disks 32   Max. # of disks 32
      Max. # of disk sets 5   Max. # of disk sets 5   Max. # of disk sets 5

SG-Singapore-M-1
API name: sgm1r1
x86     IBM i     AIX     Linux on Power  
Max. vCPUs 24   Max. vCPUs 4   Max. vCPUs 16   Max. vCPUs 16
Max. RAM 512 GiB   Max. RAM 512 GiB   Max. RAM 512 GiB   Max. RAM 512 GiB
Max. storage 4 TB   Max. storage 32 TB   Max. storage 32 TB   Max. storage 32 TB
Max. disk size 4 TB   Max. disk size 2047 GB   Max. disk size 2 TB   Max. disk size 2 TB
Max. # of disks 15   Max. # of disks 32   Max. # of disks 32   Max. # of disks 32
      Max. # of disk sets 5   Max. # of disk sets 5   Max. # of disk sets 5

UK-London-M-1
API name: ldm1r1
x86     IBM i     AIX     Linux on Power  
Max. vCPUs 24   Max. vCPUs 4   Max. vCPUs 16   Max. vCPUs 16
Max. RAM 512 GiB   Max. RAM 512 GiB   Max. RAM 512 GiB   Max. RAM 512 GiB
Max. storage 4 TB   Max. storage 32 TB   Max. storage 32 TB   Max. storage 32 TB
Max. disk size 4 TB   Max. disk size 2047 GB   Max. disk size 2 TB   Max. disk size 2 TB
Max. # of disks 15   Max. # of disks 32   Max. # of disks 32   Max. # of disks 32
      Max. # of disk sets 5   Max. # of disk sets 5   Max. # of disk sets 5

US-Central
API name: dal1r1
x86     IBM i     AIX     Linux on Power  
Max. vCPUs 24   Max. vCPUs 4   Max. vCPUs 16   Max. vCPUs 16
Max. RAM 512 GiB   Max. RAM 512 GiB   Max. RAM 512 GiB   Max. RAM 512 GiB
Max. storage 4 TB   Max. storage 32 TB   Max. storage 32 TB   Max. storage 32 TB
Max. disk size 4 TB   Max. disk size 2047 GB   Max. disk size 2 TB   Max. disk size 2 TB
Max. # of disks 15   Max. # of disks 32   Max. # of disks 32   Max. # of disks 32
      Max. # of disk sets 5   Max. # of disk sets 5   Max. # of disk sets 5

US-East-2
API name: wdb1r1
x86  
Max. vCPUs 24
Max. RAM 256 GiB
Max. storage 4 TB
Max. disk size 4 TB
Max. # of disks 15

US-Texas-M-1
API name: txm1r1
x86     IBM i     AIX     Linux on Power  
Max. vCPUs 24   Max. vCPUs 4   Max. vCPUs 16      Max. vCPUs 16
Max. RAM 512 GiB   Max. RAM 512 GiB   Max. RAM 512 GiB   Max. RAM 512 GiB
Max. storage 4 TB   Max. storage 32 TB   Max. storage 32 TB   Max. storage 32 TB
Max. disk size 4 TB   Max. disk size 2047 GB   Max. disk size 2 TB   Max. disk size 2 TB
Max. # of disks 15   Max. # of disks 32   Max. # of disks 32      Max. # of disks 32
      Max. # of disk sets 5   Max. # of disk sets 5   Max. # of disk sets 5

US-Virginia-M-1
API name: vam1r1
x86     IBM i     AIX     Linux on Power  
Max. vCPUs 24   Max. vCPUs 4   Max. vCPUs 16      Max. vCPUs 16
Max. RAM 512 GiB   Max. RAM 512 GiB   Max. RAM 512 GiB   Max. RAM 512 GiB
Max. storage 4 TB   Max. storage 32 TB   Max. storage 32 TB   Max. storage 32 TB
Max. disk size 4 TB   Max. disk size 2047 GB   Max. disk size 2 TB   Max. disk size 2 TB
Max. # of disks 15   Max. # of disks 32   Max. # of disks 32      Max. # of disks 32
      Max. # of disk sets 5   Max. # of disk sets 5   Max. # of disk sets 5

US-West
API name: tuk1r1
x86     IBM i     AIX     Linux on Power  
Max. vCPUs 12   Max. vCPUs 4   Max. vCPUs 16   Max. vCPUs 16
Max. RAM 256 GiB   Max. RAM 512 GiB   Max. RAM 512 GiB   Max. RAM 512 GiB
Max. storage 2 TB   Max. storage 32 TB   Max. storage 32 TB   Max. storage 32 TB
Max. disk size 2 TB   Max. disk size 2047 GB   Max. disk size 2 TB   Max. disk size 2 TB
Max. # of disks 15   Max. # of disks 32   Max. # of disks 32   Max. # of disks 32
      Max. # of disk sets 5   Max. # of disk sets 5   Max. # of disk sets 5