Difference between different VMware version

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Difference between different VMware version
Wednesday, August 15, 2018
2:04 PM
vSphere 4.0
vSphere 4.1
vSphere 5.0
vSphere 5.1
vSphere 5.5
vSphere 6.0
vSphere 6.5
Released




Sep-13
Mar-15

Hypervisor
ESX & ESXi
ESX & ESXi
ESXi
ESXi
ESXi
ESXi
ESXi
CPUs per host
64
160
160
160
320
480
576
RAM per host
1 TB
1 TB
2  TB
2  TB
4 TB
12 TB
12 TB
MAX LUN per ESXI





256
512
vCPU per VM
8
8
32
64
64
128
128
vMEM per VM
255 GB
255 GB
1 TB
1 TB
1 TB
4 TB
6 TB
Video RAM per VM





512 MB
2 GB
VMDK Size
2TB
2TB
2TB
2TB
62 TB
62 TB
62 TB
Cluster Size
32
32
32
32
32
64
64
FT Max vCPU
1 vCPU
1 vCPU
1 vCPU
1 vCPU
1 vCPU
4 vCPU
4 vCPU
FT MAX RAM





64GB
64GB
NUMA nodes per host



8
16


40 GBps physical Adapter support



No
yes


Max Size of Virtual RDM



2TB
62 TB


16 GB fibre channel End-to-End support



Support to run these HBAs at 16Gb. However, there is no support for full, end-to-end 16Gb connectivity from host to array.
Yes










FT Supported Disk Types




Eager-Zeroed
Lazy-Zeroed
Eager-Zeroed
Thin Provision

FT Supported Features




HA, DPM, SRM, VDS
HA, DPM, SRM, VDS, Hot Configure FT, H/W Virtualization, Snapshot, Paravirtual Devices, Storage Redundancy

VMs Per Host




512
1000

VM Encryption





NO
YES
VM Hardware Version
7
7
8
9
10
11
13
VMFS Version
3.33
3.46
5.54
5.58
5.6
5.61
5.81 (VMFS5)







6.81 (VMFS6)
New Features
- Distributed Switch
- Boot from SAN
- Auto Deploy
- Single Sign-On
- vSphere Flash Read Cache
- Virtual Volumes
- vCenter Migration

- Update Manager
- Scripted Installation
- Storage DRS
- Enhanced vMotion
- Virtual SAN
- vMotion across vSwitches
- vCenter Server High Availability

- Fault tolerance
- Storage I/O Control
- vSphere Storage Appliance
- Sparse Virtual Disks
- Reliable Memory Technology
- Cross vCenter vMotion
- vCenter Backup and Restore

- Host Profiles
- DRS Host Affinity
- Profile driven storage
- Single-root I/O Virtualization
- vSphere Big Data Extensions
- Native Linked Mode
- REST API

- Storage vMotion
- Memory Compression
- vSphere Web Client
- vSphere Replication
- vCenter Single Sign-On 2.0
- Platform Services Controller
- Virtual Machine Encryption

- Linked Mode
- Array Integration
- vCenter Server Appliance
- vSphere Data Protection
- vSphere App HA
- Certificate Authority (VMCA)
- Encrypted vMotion

- Enhanced vMotion - Compatibility
- Network I/O Control
- ESXi Firewall
- vShield Endpoint
- 40GBps NIC Support
- Content Library
- Audit Logging

- Distributed Power Management





- Proactive HA

- Hot Add VM CPU/Memory





- HA Orchestrated Restart

- VMDirectPath





- Automated UNMAP

- VMXNET3





- vSphere Integrated Containers
Management
C# Client
C# Client
C# Client
C# Client
C# Client
C# Client
Web Client



Web Client
Web Client
Web Client
Web Client
HTML5 Client
Authentication Management
-
-
-
Single Sign-On
Single Sign-On 5.5
Platform Services Controller
Platform Services Controller
Certificate Authority (VMCA)




NO
YES

Virtual Volumes




NO
YES

Content Library




NO
YES

Backup Strategy
VMware Data Recovery (VDR)


vSphere Data Protection (VDP)



vMotion Support
- Boundary: Datacenter

- Boundary: Datacenter
- Boundary: Datacenter
- Boundary: Datacenter
- vMotion across vCenters


- Shared Storage required

- Shared Storage required
- max. 10ms RTT
- max. 10ms RTT /L2 Network
- vMotion across vSwitches


- max. 5ms RTT

- max. 10ms RTT

- Long distance with 10 MS RTT
- max. 100ms RTT /L3 Network





- Without Shared Storage



Virtual SAN
-
-
-
-
VSAN 5.5
VSAN 6.0
VSAN 6.5






VSAN 6.2

All-Flash VSAN




NO
YES

VSAN Scale




32 Node
64 Node

VSAN Fault Domains




NO
YES

Virtual Volumes (Vvols)





YES, VVOL 1.0
YES, VVOL 2.0
NFS Support


NFS V3
NFS V3
NFS V3
NFS v4 with Multipathing and Kerberos authentication

HA Agent
AAM

FDM





Automatic Availability Manager

Fault Domain Manager




VAAI Primitives
-
- Atomic Test & Set
- Atomic Test & Set






- Cloning Blocks
- Cloning Blocks






- Zeroing File Blocks
- Zeroing File Blocks







- UNMAP







- Quota Exceeded Behavior







- TP LUN Reporting







- NFS Full File Clone







- NFS Space Reservation







- NFS Extended Stat







- NFS Space Reclaim







- NFS Fast File Clone




vCenter Type
Windows
Windows
Windows
Windows
Windows
Windows
Windows



Linux (vCSA)
Linux (vCSA)
Linux (vCSA)
Linux (vCSA)
Linux (vCSA)
vCenter HA






Yes , only with VCSA
vCenter Linked Mode




Windows only
Microsoft ADAM Replication
Windows & VCSA
Native Replication

vCSA Scale (vPostgres)
-
-
5 Hosts
5 Hosts
100 Hosts
1000 Hosts
2000 Hosts



50 VMs
50 VMs
3000 VMs
10000 VMs
25000 VMs
HA Orchtrated Restart






YES
Network Aware DNS






YES
Update Manager






Integrated with VCSA
Vmware HA






Proactive HA
VSAN ISCSI access






YES
VM Level Disk Encryption






YES
VM secure Boot






YES , with EFI
APP HA



No
Yes


vFlash Read Cache support



No
Yes


PDL (Permanent Device Loss) Auto Remove



No
Introduced in vSphere 5.5



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