vSphere 7 feature comparison (new in vSphere 7 new features from previous releases)

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Key Scale Metrics MAXIMUMS

FEATURES	vSphere 6.5	vSphere 6.7	vSphere 7
Host per cluster	64	64	96
VMs per cluster	8,000	8,000	8,000
Hosts per VMware vCenter Server	2,000	2,000	2,500
Powered-on VMs per vCenter Server	25K	25K	30K
Hosts for 15 linked vCenter Servers	5K	5K	15K
CPUs per host	576	768	768
RAM per host	12TB	16TB	16TB
VMs per host	1,024	1,024	1,024
vCPUs per VM	128	128	128
vRAM per VM	6TB	6TB	6TB
Non-volatile memory per host	-	1TB	1TB
Maximum vCenter Server request latency	-	200ms	250ms

ADMINISTRATION

FEATURES	vSphere 6.5	vSphere 6.7	vSphere 7
vCenter Server Appliance	o	o	o
Enhanced Linked Mode	o	o	o
Certificate management	o	o	o
Migration to vCenter Server Appliance	o	o	o
vCenter Server Hybrid Linked Mode	o	o	o
vCenter Server backup and restore	o	o	o
HTML5-based vSphere Client	o	o	o
REST-based APIs for vCenter Server management	o	o	o
Enhanced Linked Mode for vCenter Server Appliance with Embedded Platform Services Controller	o	o	o
Single reboot upgrades	-	o	o
vSphere Quick Boot	-	o	o
vCenter Server Appliance backup with built-in scheduler and retention	-	o	o
vSphere Lifecycle Manager	-	-	o
vCenter Server update planner	-	-	o
vCenter Server profiles	-	-	o

vSphere with Kubernetes

FEATURES	vSphere 6.5	vSphere 6.7	vSphere 7
vSphere with Kubernetes	-	-	o
VMware Tanzu kubernetes Grid Service for vSphere	-	-	o

vSphere Cloud Foundation vSphere

FEATURES	vSphere 6.5	vSphere 6.7	vSphere 7
vSphere Pod Service	-	-	o
Storage Service	-	-	o
Network Service	-	-	o
Registry Service	-	-	o

VM Mobility and Management

FEATURES	vSphere 6.5	vSphere 6.7	vSphere 7
vSphere vMotion	o	o	o
vSphere Storage vMotion	o	o	o
Content library	o	o	o
Cross-vSwitch vMotion	o	o	o
Cross-vCenter vMotion	o	o	o
Long-distance vMotion	o	o	o
Cross-cloud vMotion / hot migration	o	o	o
Cross-vCenter mixed-version vMotion	o	o	o
Cross-cloud cold migration	o	o	o
Per-virtual machine (VM) enhanced vMotion compatibility	-	o	o

Resource Management

FEATURES	vSphere 6.5	vSphere 6.7	vSphere 7
vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) for compute and memory	o	o	o
vSphere Enhanced DRS	-	-	o
vSphere Storage DRS	o	o	o
vSphere Storage I/O Control	o	o	o
vSphere Network I/O Control	o	o	o
Network-aware DRS	-	o	o
Assignable hardware support for vGPU and vSphere DirectPath I/O initial placement	-	-	o

Availability

FEATURES	vSphere 6.5	vSphere 6.7	vSphere 7
Fault tolerance	4 vCPU	8 vCPU	8 vCPU
vSphere Replication	o	o	o
High availability (HA) VM Component protection	o	o	o
Orchestrated HA restart	o	o	o
Proactive HA	o	o	o
vCenter Server HA	o	o	o

Storage

FEATURES	vSphere 6.5	vSphere 6.7	vSphere 7
vSphere Virtual Volumes	o	o	o
Storage policy-based manaement	o	o	o
NFS 4.1 support	o	o	o
Automated UNMAP	o	o	o
Support for 4K native storage	o	o	o

Security

FEATURES	vSphere 6.5	vSphere 6.7	vSphere 7
Multifactor Authentication	o	o	o
vSphere security hardening and compliance	o	o	o
VM encryption	o	o	o
Secure boot	o	o	o
Audit quality logging	o	o	o
Cross-vCenter encrypted vMotion	-	o	o
Support for TPM 2.0	-	o	o
Virtual TPM 2.0	-	o	o
Support for Microsoft virtualization-based security (VBS), including Credential Guard	-	o	o
FIPS 140-2 validated	-	o	o
vSphere Trust Authority	-	-	o
Identify federation with Active Directory Federation Services	-	-	o

Enhanced applications support

FEATURES	vSphere 6.5	vSphere 6.7	vSphere 7
VMware Instant Clone	o	o	o
NVIDIA vGPU	o	o	o
vSphere Integrated OpenStack	o	o	o
vSphere Integrated Containers	o	o	o
vMotion support for NVIDIA vGPU	-	o	o
vSphere Persistent Memory	-	o	o
Support for memory mapping for 1GB page sizes	-	o	o
Support for RoCE v2	-	o	o
iSCSI extension for RDMA (iSER)	-	o	o
Support for RDMA InfiniBand	-	o	o

how to confirm vSphere Function

The official documentation is here

https://www.vmware.com/content/dam/digitalmarketing/vmware/en/pdf/products/vsan/vmware-vSphere-compare-versions.pdf

At the time of writing (March 2020), it is before vSpher 7 release, but we believe that there is sufficient credibility because the officially announced document is used as the information source.