diff --git a/docs/graphx-programming-guide.md b/docs/graphx-programming-guide.md
index c601d793a2e9a75970f63358956d9a0d77d229d8..3f10cb2dc3d2abea64e54cdda70b77bd47d815aa 100644
--- a/docs/graphx-programming-guide.md
+++ b/docs/graphx-programming-guide.md
@@ -899,6 +899,8 @@ class VertexRDD[VD] extends RDD[(VertexID, VD)] {
   // Transform the values without changing the ids (preserves the internal index)
   def mapValues[VD2](map: VD => VD2): VertexRDD[VD2]
   def mapValues[VD2](map: (VertexId, VD) => VD2): VertexRDD[VD2]
+  // Show only vertices unique to this set based on their VertexId's
+  def minus(other: RDD[(VertexId, VD)])
   // Remove vertices from this set that appear in the other set
   def diff(other: VertexRDD[VD]): VertexRDD[VD]
   // Join operators that take advantage of the internal indexing to accelerate joins (substantially)
diff --git a/graphx/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/graphx/VertexRDD.scala b/graphx/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/graphx/VertexRDD.scala
index ad4bfe077293a696e3488f322ea47574f6fd8da3..a9f04b559c3d1995b5094ea620e30811de860fa9 100644
--- a/graphx/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/graphx/VertexRDD.scala
+++ b/graphx/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/graphx/VertexRDD.scala
@@ -121,6 +121,22 @@ abstract class VertexRDD[VD](
    */
   def mapValues[VD2: ClassTag](f: (VertexId, VD) => VD2): VertexRDD[VD2]
 
+  /**
+   * For each VertexId present in both `this` and `other`, minus will act as a set difference
+   * operation returning only those unique VertexId's present in `this`.
+   *
+   * @param other an RDD to run the set operation against
+   */
+  def minus(other: RDD[(VertexId, VD)]): VertexRDD[VD]
+
+  /**
+   * For each VertexId present in both `this` and `other`, minus will act as a set difference
+   * operation returning only those unique VertexId's present in `this`.
+   *
+   * @param other a VertexRDD to run the set operation against
+   */
+  def minus(other: VertexRDD[VD]): VertexRDD[VD]
+
   /**
    * For each vertex present in both `this` and `other`, `diff` returns only those vertices with
    * differing values; for values that are different, keeps the values from `other`. This is
diff --git a/graphx/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/graphx/impl/VertexPartitionBaseOps.scala b/graphx/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/graphx/impl/VertexPartitionBaseOps.scala
index 4fd2548b7faf69584bcf9dd26bb34e3163e5ecd3..b90f9fa3270520edcab8bb3337dfbfce421b3dd4 100644
--- a/graphx/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/graphx/impl/VertexPartitionBaseOps.scala
+++ b/graphx/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/graphx/impl/VertexPartitionBaseOps.scala
@@ -88,6 +88,21 @@ private[graphx] abstract class VertexPartitionBaseOps
     this.withMask(newMask)
   }
 
+  /** Hides the VertexId's that are the same between `this` and `other`. */
+  def minus(other: Self[VD]): Self[VD] = {
+    if (self.index != other.index) {
+      logWarning("Minus operations on two VertexPartitions with different indexes is slow.")
+      minus(createUsingIndex(other.iterator))
+    } else {
+      self.withMask(self.mask.andNot(other.mask))
+    }
+  }
+
+  /** Hides the VertexId's that are the same between `this` and `other`. */
+  def minus(other: Iterator[(VertexId, VD)]): Self[VD] = {
+    minus(createUsingIndex(other))
+  }
+
   /**
    * Hides vertices that are the same between this and other. For vertices that are different, keeps
    * the values from `other`. The indices of `this` and `other` must be the same.
diff --git a/graphx/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/graphx/impl/VertexRDDImpl.scala b/graphx/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/graphx/impl/VertexRDDImpl.scala
index 125692ddaad831fecb4ec02b5b596cb13e0aa2d7..349c8545bf201152c61a3d4a8d74be5b3ec7922e 100644
--- a/graphx/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/graphx/impl/VertexRDDImpl.scala
+++ b/graphx/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/graphx/impl/VertexRDDImpl.scala
@@ -103,6 +103,31 @@ class VertexRDDImpl[VD] private[graphx] (
   override def mapValues[VD2: ClassTag](f: (VertexId, VD) => VD2): VertexRDD[VD2] =
     this.mapVertexPartitions(_.map(f))
 
+  override def minus(other: RDD[(VertexId, VD)]): VertexRDD[VD] = {
+    minus(this.aggregateUsingIndex(other, (a: VD, b: VD) => a))
+  }
+
+  override def minus (other: VertexRDD[VD]): VertexRDD[VD] = {
+    other match {
+      case other: VertexRDD[_] if this.partitioner == other.partitioner =>
+        this.withPartitionsRDD[VD](
+          partitionsRDD.zipPartitions(
+            other.partitionsRDD, preservesPartitioning = true) {
+            (thisIter, otherIter) =>
+              val thisPart = thisIter.next()
+              val otherPart = otherIter.next()
+              Iterator(thisPart.minus(otherPart))
+          })
+      case _ =>
+        this.withPartitionsRDD[VD](
+          partitionsRDD.zipPartitions(
+            other.partitionBy(this.partitioner.get), preservesPartitioning = true) {
+            (partIter, msgs) => partIter.map(_.minus(msgs))
+          }
+        )
+    }
+  }
+
   override def diff(other: RDD[(VertexId, VD)]): VertexRDD[VD] = {
     diff(this.aggregateUsingIndex(other, (a: VD, b: VD) => a))
   }
diff --git a/graphx/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/graphx/VertexRDDSuite.scala b/graphx/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/graphx/VertexRDDSuite.scala
index 4f7a442ab503d2a7657a80c6aa578ae621f3fbbc..c9443d11c76cff5f5d8a239291d144cad82c1d9e 100644
--- a/graphx/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/graphx/VertexRDDSuite.scala
+++ b/graphx/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/graphx/VertexRDDSuite.scala
@@ -47,6 +47,35 @@ class VertexRDDSuite extends FunSuite with LocalSparkContext {
     }
   }
 
+  test("minus") {
+    withSpark { sc =>
+      val vertexA = VertexRDD(sc.parallelize(0 until 75, 2).map(i => (i.toLong, 0))).cache()
+      val vertexB = VertexRDD(sc.parallelize(25 until 100, 2).map(i => (i.toLong, 1))).cache()
+      val vertexC = vertexA.minus(vertexB)
+      assert(vertexC.map(_._1).collect.toSet === (0 until 25).toSet)
+    }
+  }
+
+  test("minus with RDD[(VertexId, VD)]") {
+    withSpark { sc =>
+      val vertexA = VertexRDD(sc.parallelize(0 until 75, 2).map(i => (i.toLong, 0))).cache()
+      val vertexB: RDD[(VertexId, Int)] =
+        sc.parallelize(25 until 100, 2).map(i => (i.toLong, 1)).cache()
+      val vertexC = vertexA.minus(vertexB)
+      assert(vertexC.map(_._1).collect.toSet === (0 until 25).toSet)
+    }
+  }
+
+  test("minus with non-equal number of partitions") {
+    withSpark { sc =>
+      val vertexA = VertexRDD(sc.parallelize(0 until 75, 5).map(i => (i.toLong, 0)))
+      val vertexB = VertexRDD(sc.parallelize(50 until 100, 2).map(i => (i.toLong, 1)))
+      assert(vertexA.partitions.size != vertexB.partitions.size)
+      val vertexC = vertexA.minus(vertexB)
+      assert(vertexC.map(_._1).collect.toSet === (0 until 50).toSet)
+    }
+  }
+
   test("diff") {
     withSpark { sc =>
       val n = 100
@@ -71,7 +100,7 @@ class VertexRDDSuite extends FunSuite with LocalSparkContext {
     }
   }
 
-  test("diff vertices with the non-equal number of partitions") {
+  test("diff vertices with non-equal number of partitions") {
     withSpark { sc =>
       val vertexA = VertexRDD(sc.parallelize(0 until 24, 3).map(i => (i.toLong, 0)))
       val vertexB = VertexRDD(sc.parallelize(8 until 16, 2).map(i => (i.toLong, 1)))
@@ -96,7 +125,7 @@ class VertexRDDSuite extends FunSuite with LocalSparkContext {
     }
   }
 
-  test("leftJoin vertices with the non-equal number of partitions") {
+  test("leftJoin vertices with non-equal number of partitions") {
     withSpark { sc =>
       val vertexA = VertexRDD(sc.parallelize(0 until 100, 2).map(i => (i.toLong, 1)))
       val vertexB = VertexRDD(
diff --git a/project/MimaExcludes.scala b/project/MimaExcludes.scala
index 56f5dbe53fad4f381fcf633e14a92f2b8bef3097..b9f40046e15a2698a620e747fcc81c842bab0356 100644
--- a/project/MimaExcludes.scala
+++ b/project/MimaExcludes.scala
@@ -51,6 +51,9 @@ object MimaExcludes {
               "org.apache.spark.broadcast.HttpBroadcastFactory.newBroadcast"),
             ProblemFilters.exclude[IncompatibleResultTypeProblem](
               "org.apache.spark.broadcast.TorrentBroadcastFactory.newBroadcast")
+          ) ++ Seq(
+          // SPARK-6510 Add a Graph#minus method acting as Set#difference
+            ProblemFilters.exclude[MissingMethodProblem]("org.apache.spark.graphx.VertexRDD.minus")
           )
 
         case v if v.startsWith("1.3") =>