Difference between vSphere 4 and vSphere 5

Features

vSphere 4.1

vSphere 5.0

VMA

Yes VMA 4.1

Yes VMA 5

HA Agent

Automatic Availability
Manager

FDM
Fault Domain Manager

HA Host Approach

Primary & Secondary

Master & Slave

HA Failure Detection

Management N/W

Management N/W and Storage
communication

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
using ESXCLI

Configure dependent
hardware iSCSI and software
iSCSI adapters along with the
network configurations and
port binding in a single dialog
box using the vSphere Client.

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

1. 4.1

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
5 milliseconds.

Round-trip latencies of up to
10 milliseconds. This provides better performance over
long latency networks

Storage Vmotion

Moving VM Files using moving to using dirty block tracking

Moving VM Files using I/O
mirroring with better enhancements

Service Console

64-bit

Not Applicable (NO SC)