VMware vSphere 6.0 vs. vSphere 6.5

This site explains the key differences between vSphere 6.0 and vSphere 6.5. An overview comparison from all vSphere Versions is available here.

	vSphere 6.0	vSphere 6.5
Released	March 2015	November 2016
Physical CPUs per host	480	576
Physical RAM per host	12 TB	12 TB
VMs per host	1024	1024
vCPU per VM	128	128
vMEM per VM	4 TB	6 TB
Cluster Size	64	64
High Availability	Reactive HA	Proactive HA
vSphere Integrated Containers	NO	YES
VM Hardware Version	11	13
VMFS Version	5.61	6.81
Management	vSphere Web Client vSphere Client (C#)	vSphere Web Client HTML5 Client
Authentication Management	Platform Services Controller	Platform Services Controller
vMotion	vMotion across vCenters vMotion across vSwitches	vMotion across vCenters vMotion across vSwitches Cross-Cloud vMotion
vMotion Network Support	L3 Network max. 100ms RTT	L3 Network max. 100ms RTT vMotion Traffic Encryption
Win to vCSA Migration	vCenter 5.5 to vCSA 6.0	vCenter 5.5 to vCSA 6.5 vCenter 6.0 to vCSA 6.5
REST API	NO	YES
VM Encryption	NO	YES
Virtual Volumes	Virtual Volumes 1.0	Virtual Volumes 2.0
Virtual SAN	VSAN 6.0 / 6.1 / 6.2	VSAN 6.5
vCenter Type	Windows Linux (vCSA)	Windows Linux (vCSA)
vCenter HA	NO	YES
vCenter Native Backup	NO	YES
vCSA Scale (vPostgres)	1000 Hosts 10000 VMs	2000 Hosts 25000 VMs
vCSA Operating System	SUSE Enterprise 11	Photon OS

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