From vSphere 5.1 and with your VM hardware version 9, You Virtual Machines are More powerfull as like the high-end physical servers with more computing power. With the release of vSphere 5.1, You can upgrade or create your VM Hardware version to 9 to utilize the new features.Let’s take a look at the new features availbale as part of VM Hardware Version 9.
Features of VM hardware Version 9
1. Processor supports upto 64 vCPUs Per Virtual Machine which was 32 vCPU in vSphere 5.0
2.RAM supports upto 1 TB which is same as vSphere 5
3.Improved 3D Graphics supports which is suitable to run the graphics intensive applications like CAD, imaging in VMware virtual Machine
4. Reclaim Storage Space from the deleted files. This feature is only available for Vmware view. This can be achieved by creating VMDK format of SEsparce VMDK format.
5.Virtual CPU performance Counters – This new features enables to leverage the performnace countres from inside the Guest Operating system.
6.Virtualized Hardware Virtualization(VHV) – this feature helps to run the workloads with better performance. It is improved virtualization of the CPU
7. VMware tools upgrade don’t require reboot
Upgrading to VMware Tools to version 5.1 requires Reboot
Upgrading beyond VMware Tools version 5.1, Reboot is not required.