Tuesday, 4 April 2017

Difference Between ESXi 5.0/5.1/5.5 and 6.0



Features
5.0
5.1
5.5
6.0
VM HW Version
8
9
10
11
vCPU
32 vCPUs
64 vCPUs
64 vCPUs
128 vCPUs
VM Memory
1 TB
1 TB
1 TB
4 TB
Graphics Support
SW based 3D Graphics
HW Based 3D Graphics
Improved 3D graphics support
WDDM 1.1 GDI graphics acceleration
Cluster Nodes
32 Nodes
32 Nodes
32 Nodes
64 Nodes
VM's per cluster
3000
4000
4000
8000
Max CPU per Host
160
160
320
480
Max mem per Host
2 TB
2 TB
4 TB
12 TB
Max vCPU per FT VM
1 vCPU
1 vCPU
1 vCPU
4 vCPU
VCSA with Embedded database
5 Hosts and 50 VMs
5 Hosts and 50 VM's
300 Hosts and 1000 VM's
1000 Hosts and 10000 VM's
Content Library
NA
NA
NA
Yes
VSAN
N/A
N/A
VSAN 5.5
VSAN 6.0
VSAN  Scale


32 Nodes
64 Nodes
All-Flash VSAN


No
Yes
VSAN Fault Domains


No
Yes


vMotion Enhancements
vMotion Supported
vMotion without shared storage
vMotion without shared storage Long Distance vMotion (10 ms  RTTs)
vMotion access vCenters                            vMotion access virtual switches                                  Long Distance vMotion (100+ ms RTTs)
Virtual Volumes
NA
NA
NA
Available with vSphere 6.0

NFS Support
NFS v3
NFS v3
NFS v3
NFS 4.1 supports Multipathing and kerberos Authentication

vCenter Single-Sign-On
NA
Introduced with 5.1
SSO with improved Architecture
SSO included as part of Platform Services Controller
FT Supported Disk Types


Eager-Zeroed
Lazy-Zeroed, Eager Zeroed and Thin Provision


FT Supported Features


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


5.60
5.61

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