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If you’re not on the latest version of VMware vSphere®, see which features have changed with each version.
Comparing vSphere 5.x to vSphere 6.0
The following table highlights the new features and capabilities provided with each release.
VMware ESXi™
V M WA R E v S P H E R E 5 . 5
V M WA R E v S P H E R E 6 . 0
•Compatibility 5.5 (Virtual Hardware 10)
––Improved 3D graphics support
––AHCI controller support
•Compatibility 6.0 (Virtual Hardware 11)
––128 vCPUs/4TB vRAM
––WDDM 1.1 GDI graphics acceleration
––Ability to remove all serial and parallel ports
––Hot-add RAM now vNUMA aware
•Host configuration maximums doubled for CPU,
memory, NUMA nodes, and vCPU
•Support for hot-pluggable PCIe SSD
•Support for CPU C-states
•Reliable Memory Technology
Management
(VMware vCenter
Server®, vRealize®
Operations™, vRealize
Log Insight™)
•Single sign-on
––Improved architecture
––Native Active Directory support
•vCenter Server Appliance™
––300 hosts/1,000 VM with embedded DB
•vSphere App HA
•Support for 480 CPUs and 12TB RAM
•Support for 1,024 virtual machines per host
•vSphere vMotion® support for Microsoft clusters
•64 host clusters, 8,000 virtual machines per cluster
•vMotion enhancements
––vMotion across vCenter Server
––vMotion across virtual switches
––Long-distance vMotion
•Platform Services Controller™
––Common services for VMware vCloud Suite®; includes
SSO, certificate, and licensing
––Enables Enhanced Linked Mode
•vCenter Server Appliance
––Same scale as Windows installable vCenter Server
(1,000 hosts and 10,000 virtual machines)
•Content library
•vRealize Operations Standard (available with vSphere with
Operations Management™)
•vRealize Log Insight (lite version for vCenter Server only)
Storage
•62TB VMDK
•16Gbps end-to-end FC support
•PDL AutoRemove
•Improved VAAI UNMAP (now with ESXCLI)
•VMFS heap improvements
•vSphere Flash Read Cache™
•Microsoft clustering support for FCoE and iSCSI
•Rename VM files on vSphere Storage vMotion®
•vSphere Replication™, Storage vMotion, and Storage
DRS™ interoperability
•Compatible with VMware Virtual SAN™
•vSphere Replication
––Multisite topology
––Storage vMotion support
––Multiple Point-In-Time (MTIP) snapshots
•vSphere Virtual Volumes™
•vSphere APIs for IO Filtering (VAIO)
•NFS 4.1 client
•NFS and iSCSI IPv6 support
•Storage Policy-Based Management (SPBM) now available
in all vSphere editions
•vSphere Storage I/O Control IOPS reservations
•vSphere Replication
––Support for 2,000 virtual machines per vCenter Server
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Network
V M WA R E v S P H E R E 5 . 5
V M WA R E v S P H E R E 6 . 0
•Improved LACP Support
––Up to 64 link aggregator groups (LAGs)
––32 hashing algorithms
––Improved workflows
•vSphere Network I/O Control version 3
––Ability to reserve bandwidth at a VMNIC
––Ability to reserve bandwidth at a vSphere Distributed
Switch™ (VDS) port group
•Traffic filtering (port group level)
––Filter on MAC, type, or protocol
––Filter both ingress and egress
•SR-IOV support for 1,024 virtual functions
•Differentiated services code point (DSCP) tagging
•Single-root I/O virtualization (SR-IOV)
––Communicate port group properties
•Host-level packet capture tool (tcpdump)
––40Gb NIC support
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