VMware vSphere 6.5 offers increased scalability. You can see a comparision against all previous verisons at my ESX and vCenter Configuration Maximums page. Changes in VMware vSphere 6.5 are:
Virtual Machine and Host Maximums
|
vSphere 6.5 |
vSphere 6.0 |
RAM per virtual machine |
6 TB |
4 TB |
Video memory per virtual machine |
2 GB |
512 MB |
Logical CPUs per host |
576 |
480 |
Number of total paths on a server |
2048 |
1024 |
FC LUN ID |
16383 |
1032 |
Volumes per host |
512 |
256 |
vCenter Server Maximums
|
vSphere 6.5 |
vSphere 6.0 |
Hosts per vCenter Server |
2000 |
1000 |
Powered on virtual machines |
25000 |
10000 |
Registered virtual machines |
35000 |
15000 |
Number of host per datacenter |
2000 |
500 |
Virtual machines per cluster |
8000 |
4000 |
Hosts per distributed switch |
2000 |
1000 |

Max VMs per cluster in 6.0 is 8000, same as 6.5