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”
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Features
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vSphere 4.1
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vSphere 5.0
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Hypervisor
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ESX & ESXi
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Only ESXi
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VMA
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Yes VMA 4.1
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Yes VMA 5
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HA Agent
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AAM
Automatic Availability Manager |
FDM
Fault Domain Manager |
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HA Host Approach
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Primary & Secondary
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Master & Slave
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HA Failure Detection
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Management N/W
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Management N/W and Storage
communication |
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HA Log File
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/etc/opt/vmware/AAM
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/etc/opt/vmware/FDM
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DNS Dependent on DNS
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Yes
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NO
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Host UEFI boot support
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NO
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boot systems from hard drives, CD/DVD drives, or USB media
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Storage DRS
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Not Available
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Yes
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VM Affinity & Anti-Affinity
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Available
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Available
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VMDK Affinity & Anti-Affinity
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Not Available
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Available
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Profile driven storage
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Not Available
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Available
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VMFS version
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VMFS-3
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VMFS-5
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VSphere Storage Appliance
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Not Available
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Available
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Iscsi Port Binding
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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. |
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Storage I/O control for NFS
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Fiber Channel
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Fiber Channel & NFS
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Storage Vmotion Snapshot support
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VM with Snapshot cannot be migrated using Storage vMotion
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VM with Snapshot can be migrated using Storage vMotion
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Swap to SSD
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NO
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Yes
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Network I/O control
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Yes
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Yes with enhancement
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ESXi firewall
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Not Available
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Yes
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vCenter Linux Support
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Not Available
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vCenter Virtual Appliance
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vSphere Full Client
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Yes
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Yes
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vSphere Web Client
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Yes
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yes with lot of improvements
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VM Hardware Version
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7
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8
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Virtual CPU per VM
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8 vCpu
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32 vCpu
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Virtual Machine RAM
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255 GB
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1 TB of vRAM
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VM Swapfile size
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255 GB
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1 TB
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Support for Client connected USB
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Not Available
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Yes
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Non Hardware Accelerated
3D grpahics support |
Not Available
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Yes
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UEFI Virtual BIOS
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Not Available
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Yes
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VMware Tools Version
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4.1
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5
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Mutlicore vCpu
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Not Available
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Yes configure at VM setting
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MAC OS Guest Support
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Not Available
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Apple Mac OS X Server 10.6
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Smart card reader support for VM
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Not Available
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Yes
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Auto Deploy
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Not Available
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Yes
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Image Builder
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Not Available
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Yes
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VM’s per host
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320
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512
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Max Logical Cpu per Host
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160
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160
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RAM per Host
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1 TB
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2 TB
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MAX RAM for Service Console
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800 MB
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Not Applicable (NO SC)
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LUNS per Server
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256
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256
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Metro Vmotion
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Round-trip latencies of up to
5 milliseconds. |
Round-trip latencies of up to
10 milliseconds. This provides better performance over long latency networks |
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Storage Vmotion
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Moving VM Files using moving to using dirty block tracking
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Moving VM Files using I/O
mirroring with better enhancements |
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Virtual Distributed Switch
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Yes
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Yes with more enhancements
like deeper view into virtual machine traffic through Netflow and enhances monitoring and troubleshooting capabilities through SPAN and LLDP |
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USB 3.0 Support
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NO
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Yes
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Host Per vCenter
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1000
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1000
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Powered on virtual machines
per vCenter Server |
10000
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10000
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Vmkernel
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64-bit
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64-bit
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Service Console
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64-bit
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Not Applicable (NO SC)
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Licensing
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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 |