VMware Communities: Message List - Unable to VMotion To HP DL360 G6

Re: Unable to VMotion To HP DL360 G6

IT ST — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:53:04 GMT

Seems like my problem was in the fact that not all ESXes were updated to ESX 3.5 Update4 and also the VC needed to be updated to Update 4.

Re: Unable to VMotion To HP DL360 G6

AndreTheGiant — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:21:09 GMT

Try to power off the VM, reset all CPUID Mask settings and try VMotion again.

Andre

Re: Unable to VMotion To HP DL360 G6

IT ST — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:14:53 GMT

there are some customs CPUID mask that ware set by the EVC :

this is what is see in the vmx files :

cpuid.1.eax = "xxxx------------xx--------------"

cpuid.1.ecx = "R----R--R-RRRR-0-----------H-R--"

cpuid.1.edx = "---------------------------T----"

cpuid.80000001.eax.amd = "xxxx------------xx--------------"

cpuid.80000001.ecx.amd = "------------------RR-RR-----0---"

cpuid.80000001.edx = "----R---------------H-----------"

cpuid.80000001.edx.amd = "-----R--------------H------T----"

cpuid.1.ecx.amd = "R-------R-------------------R---"

hostCPUID.80000001 = "00000000000000000000000120100000"

hostCPUID.1 = "0001067a00040800040ce3bdbfebfbff"

hostCPUID.0 = "0000000d756e65476c65746e49656e69"

guestCPUID.80000001 = "00000000000000000000000120100000"

guestCPUID.1 = "000006f800010800000022110febbbff"

guestCPUID.0 = "0000000a756e65476c65746e49656e69"

userCPUID.80000001 = "00000000000000000000000120100000"

userCPUID.1 = "0001067a00040800000022110febbbff"

userCPUID.0 = "0000000d756e65476c65746e49656e69"

evcCompatibilityMode = "TRUE"

Re: Unable to VMotion To HP DL360 G6

AndreTheGiant — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:56:16 GMT

No more ideas, sorry.
Just verify again that your VMs does not have custom CPUID Mask.

Andre

Re: Unable to VMotion To HP DL360 G6

IT ST — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 05:32:13 GMT

all ESX are in the same cluster.

currenly the dl360 G6(esx14) is out of the cluster but he was in the cluster when we tried to VMotion

Re: Unable to VMotion To HP DL360 G6

AndreTheGiant — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 05:19:33 GMT

But ESX03 and ESX14 are in the same EVC cluster?

From your screenshoot seems that one ESX is outside.
Is the source of the VMotion?

Andre

Re: Unable to VMotion To HP DL360 G6

IT ST — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 05:11:36 GMT

VT is enabled on all servers

Re: Unable to VMotion To HP DL360 G6

AndreTheGiant — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:32:41 GMT

According with this KB you must able to add the 55xx ESX:
http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1003212

Be sure that VT is enabled on new node and that there aren't some custom CPUID Mask at VM level.

Andre

Re: Unable to VMotion To HP DL360 G6

IT ST — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 14:44:19 GMT

just to clerify the current EVC cluster has 53xx and 54xx CPUs and we want to add 55xx CPU to the cluster

Re: Unable to VMotion To HP DL360 G6

IT ST — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 14:31:50 GMT

As you can see from the screenshot, we only have Intel CPU's.

Look closer at the screenshot and you will be able to see each CPU and server model on each ESX.

I also just noticed that none of the ESX has RDTSCP accoring to the table I attached.

Re: Unable to VMotion To HP DL360 G6

Anton V Zhbankov — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 14:21:13 GMT

Take a look at this thread http://communities.vmware.com/thread/69579

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Re: Unable to VMotion To HP DL360 G6

IT ST — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 13:35:46 GMT

Forgot to mention that EVC is already enabled...

Re: Unable to VMotion To HP DL360 G6

tom howarth — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 13:27:42 GMT

You could try to mask the inappropriate CPU setting or enable EVC for the cluster. This is one of the reasons why I always purchase Hosts in pairs.

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Re: Unable to VMotion To HP DL360 G6

Anton V Zhbankov — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 13:27:24 GMT

Enable EVC for cluster

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Unable to VMotion To HP DL360 G6

IT ST — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 12:51:04 GMT

Hi,

We’ve recently purchased a new HP DL360 G6 Server to add to
our ESX Cluster.

When trying to VMotion a VM to this ESX we get the following
error:

“Unable to migrate from ESX03 to ESX14: Host CPU is
incompatible…Mismatch detected for these features: RDTSCP;…”

I’m attaching a screen shot of the output of VMWare CPU
Info. You can see that we already have HP DL360 G5 servers in out cluster and
VMotion works fine. For some reason with the G6 it doesn’t although it seems
that (enabled) CPU features of the G5 and G6 are similar.

Any idea?