Virtualization Blog: 2013

Tuesday, December 24, 2013

Feature	5.5	5.1	5	4.1	4
HA Agent	FDM	FDM	FDM	AAM	AAM
HA Algorithm	Master Slave	Master Slave	Master Slave	Primary Secondary	Primary Secondary
HA Failure Detection	Management Network Storage Communication	Management Network Storage Communication	Management Network Storage Communication	Management Network	Management Network
Host UEFI Boot Support	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No
Storage DRS Available	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No
VMFS Version	VMFS 5.X	VMFS 5.X	VMFS 5.X	VMFS 3.X	VMFS 3.X
vCenter Linux Support	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No
vSphere Web Client	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No
VM Hardware Version	10	9	8	7	7
Multicore vCPU Available	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No
MAC OS Support	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No
Auto Deploy & Image Builder	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No
Windows 7 Support	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Windows 2008 Support	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Automatic Failback Support	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
vSphere Replication	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No
SRM in Linked Mode	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No
Planned Migration Support	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No
vSphere Distributed Switch Support	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No

Component	5.5	5.1	5	4.1	4
Virtual CPUs per virtual machine (Virtual SMP)	64	64	32	8	8
RAM per virtual machine	1TB	1TB	1TB	255GB	255GB
Virtual disk size	62TB	2TB	2TB	2TB	2TB
Virtual Disks per virtual machine	60	60	60	60	60
Logical CPUs per host	320	160	160	160	20
Virtual machines per host	512	512	512	320	320
Virtual CPUs per host	4096	2048	2048	512	512
Virtual CPUs per core	32	25	25	25	20
RAM per host	4TB	2TB	2TB	1TB	1TB
LUN size	64TB	64TB	64TB	2TB	2TB
Raw Device Mapping size (virtual compatibility)	62TB	2TB	2TB	2TB	2TB
Raw Device Mapping size(physical compatibility)	64TB	64TB	64TB	2TB	2TB
Virtual machines per cluster	4000	4000	3000	3000	1280
Resource pools per cluster	1600	1600	1600	512	512
Hosts per vCenter Server	1000	1000	1000	1000	200
Number of host per datacenter	500	500	500	400	100
Powered-on virtual machines per vCenter Server	10000	10000	10000	10000	2000
Registered virtual machines per vCenter Server	15000	15000	15000	15000	3000
Number of host per datacenter	500	500	500	400	100
Distributed switches per vCenter	128	128	32	32	16
Single Sign On (SSO)	Required	Required	Not Available	Not Available	Not Available
Protected virtual machines in total	1000	1000	1000	1000	1000
Protected virtual machines in a single protection group	500	500	500	500	500
Protection groups per recovery plan	250	150	150	150	150
Datastore groups	255	150	150	150	150
Simultaneously running recovery plans	10	10	10	3	3

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