Features | vSphere 4.1 | vSphere 5.0 |
VMA | Yes VMA 4.1 | Yes VMA 5 |
HA Agent | Automatic Availability | FDM |
HA Host Approach | Primary & Secondary | Master & Slave |
HA Failure Detection | Management N/W | Management N/W and Storage |
Host UEFI boot support | NO | boot systems from hard drives, CD/DVD drives, or USB media |
Storage DRS | Not Available | Yes |
VM Affinity & Anti-Affinity | Available | Available |
VMDK Affinity & Anti-Affinity | Not Available | Available |
Profile driven storage | Not Available | Available |
VSphere Storage Appliance | Not Available | Available |
Iscsi Port Binding | Can be only done via Cli | Configure dependent |
Storage Vmotion Snapshot support | VM with Snapshot cannot be migrated using Storage vMotion | VM with Snapshot can be migrated using Storage vMotion |
Swap to SSD | NO | Yes |
Network I/O control | Yes | Yes with enhancement |
ESXi firewall | Not Available | Yes |
vCenter Linux Support | Not Available | vCenter Virtual Appliance |
VM Hardware Version | 7 | 8 |
Virtual CPU per VM | 8 vCpu | 32 vCpu |
Virtual Machine RAM | 255 GB | 1 TB of vRAM |
VM Swapfile size | 255 GB | 1 TB |
Support for Client connected USB | Not Available | Yes |
UEFI Virtual BIOS | Not Available | Yes |
VMware Tools Version |
| 5 |
Mutlicore vCpu | Not Available | Yes configure at VM setting |
MAC OS Guest Support | Not Available | Apple Mac OS X Server 10.6 |
Auto Deploy | Not Available | Yes |
Image Builder | Not Available | Yes |
VM’s per host | 320 | 512 |
Max Logical Cpu per Host | 160 | 160 |
RAM per Host | 1 TB | 2 TB |
LUNS per Server | 256 | 256 |
Metro Vmotion | Round-trip latencies of up to | Round-trip latencies of up to |
Storage Vmotion | Moving VM Files using moving to using dirty block tracking | Moving VM Files using I/O |
Service Console | 64-bit | Not Applicable (NO SC) |
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Difference between vSphere 4 and vSphere 5
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