Up to 30 devices per controller with up to 4 controllers per VM (120 devices).

Mac OSX don't support IDE, so CD-rom needs AHCI.

On ESXi, the IDE only is supported as a CD-Rom controller.

Sata as controller is supported on CD-rom or Virtual disk.

AHCI for SATA support (Advanced Host Controller Interface).

Where new components are supported in the guest OS: Virtual Machine Hardware Version 10 (vmx-10) – There is a new support in vSphere 5.5, for VMX-10 virtual hardware. It brings new configuration maximums for ESXi hosts, clusters and VMs, by introducing Virtual Hardware version 10 (vmx-10) which allows to use larger VMDKs, larger number of CPUs and memory. VMware vSphere 5.5 released and brings many enhancements, which are introduced with new virtual hardware version 10 (VMX-10).

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