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Difference between vSphere 4.1 and vSphere 5
I am getting lot of request from email to post the difference between the vSphere 4.0 and vSphere 5.0. Here the post for the requests and I believe this could be the definite questions in interviews and this post helps you to just quickly review the difference between the features of this 2 vSphere Releases.
If you are looking for Difference between ESX 3.5 and ESX 4.0. Please refer my Blogpost "Difference between ESX 3.5 and ESX 4.0"
-->If you are looking for Difference between ESX 3.5 and ESX 4.0. Please refer my Blogpost "Difference between ESX 3.5 and ESX 4.0"
| Features | vSphere 4.1 | vSphere 5.0 |
| Hypervisor | ESX & ESXi | Only ESXi |
| VMA | Yes VMA 4.1 | Yes VMA 5 |
| HA Agent | AAM 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 |
| HA Log File | /etc/opt/vmware/AAM | /etc/opt/vmware/FDM |
| DNS Dependent on DNS | Yes | NO |
| 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 |
| VMFS version | VMFS-3 | VMFS-5 |
| 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 I/O control for NFS | Fiber Channel | Fiber Channel & NFS |
| 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 |
| vSphere Full Client | Yes | Yes |
| vSphere Web Client | Yes | yes with lot of improvements |
| 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 |
| Non Hardware Accelerated 3D grpahics support | Not Available | Yes |
| UEFI Virtual BIOS | Not Available | Yes |
| VMware Tools Version | 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 |
| Smart card reader support for VM | Not Available | Yes |
| 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 |
| MAX RAM for Service Console | 800 MB | Not Applicable (NO SC) |
| 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 |
| Virtual Distributed Switch | Yes | Yes with more enhancements like deeper view into virtual machine traffic through Netflow and enhances monitoring and troubleshooting capabilities through SPAN and LLDP |
| USB 3.0 Support | NO | Yes |
| Host Per vCenter | 1000 | 1000 |
| Powered on virtual machines per vCenter Server | 10000 | 10000 |
| Vmkernel | 64-bit | 64-bit |
| Service Console | 64-bit | Not Applicable (NO SC) |
| Licensing | vSphere Essentials vSphere Essentials Plus vSphere Standard vSphere Advanced vSphere Enterprise vSphere Enterprise Plus | vSphere Essentials vSphere Essentials Plus vSphere Standard vSphere Enterprise vSphere Enterprise Plus |
