topic Re: Looking for Comparison between dfm 4.x and dfm 5.0/5.1 in Active IQ Unified Manager Discussions

Looking for Comparison between dfm 4.x and dfm 5.0/5.1

SCONSULTANT — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 06:33:43 GMT

What are the benefits and or new features of one versus the other? What about limitations?

Re: Looking for Comparison between dfm 4.x and dfm 5.0/5.1

arunchak — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 04:51:32 GMT

Major differences:

1. VIM - Virtual Infrastructure management (VMware) - in 5.0 and 5.1 (7-mode) you can manage VMware infrastructure. [This is not present in DFM 4.x]

2. You have a unified GUI called NSPOG [Not present in 4.x]

Thanks,

Arun

Re: Looking for Comparison between dfm 4.x and dfm 5.0/5.1

kjag — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 05:06:56 GMT

Few more features added in 5.0

1. 64bit Architecture - A new installer to support 64bit Architecture

2. Dashboard - Having multiple panels which shows high level information of the storage infrastructure.

3. Reporting - Enables you to view reports that are broadly categorized into Events, Inventory, and Storage capacity. It includes "Usage Metric" reports for datasets

4. Custom naming settings - Allows to customize the naming format of Volumes, snapshots in a dataset

5. Certificate-based authentication - Certifies cloud orchestrator tools or certifies host service in a virtual environment.

-KJag