topic Is there some sort of vMotion/Enhanced vMotion CPU compatibility tool in existence? Spreadsheet, webbtool? in ESXi Discussions https://communities.vmware.com/t5/ESXi-Discussions/Is-there-some-sort-of-vMotion-Enhanced-vMotion-CPU-compatibility/m-p/1356637#M128515 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Firstly apologies is this is a silly question I am a relatively newbie VMware user only just finished the "VMware vSphere, Install, Configure, Manage course and my exam is a couple of months away.</P><P></P><P>Within our environment we are unable to perform a hot-migrations from a cluster comprised of HP ProLiant BL 460c G1's to a cluster comprised of Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5670 @ 2.93GHz.&nbsp; We get the error...&nbsp; </P><P></P><P>The virtual machine requires hardware features that unsupported or disabled on the target host:</P><P>* SSE4.2</P><P></P><P>Presumably this is because the family type is different but it would be nice to be able to provide definitive proof of this for the indeviduel attempting the hot migration.&nbsp; </P><P></P><P>So my question is does a tool/spread sheet/web tool exist for people planning to purchase new hosts or for those wanting greater detail on how to force compatibility using the CPUID Mask feature?</P><P></P><P>p.s I did warn you this could potentially be a total newb question </P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 30 Apr 2013 14:05:04 GMT lukeglazebrook 2013-04-30T14:05:04Z Is there some sort of vMotion/Enhanced vMotion CPU compatibility tool in existence? Spreadsheet, webbtool? https://communities.vmware.com/t5/ESXi-Discussions/Is-there-some-sort-of-vMotion-Enhanced-vMotion-CPU-compatibility/m-p/1356637#M128515 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Firstly apologies is this is a silly question I am a relatively newbie VMware user only just finished the "VMware vSphere, Install, Configure, Manage course and my exam is a couple of months away.</P><P></P><P>Within our environment we are unable to perform a hot-migrations from a cluster comprised of HP ProLiant BL 460c G1's to a cluster comprised of Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5670 @ 2.93GHz.&nbsp; We get the error...&nbsp; </P><P></P><P>The virtual machine requires hardware features that unsupported or disabled on the target host:</P><P>* SSE4.2</P><P></P><P>Presumably this is because the family type is different but it would be nice to be able to provide definitive proof of this for the indeviduel attempting the hot migration.&nbsp; </P><P></P><P>So my question is does a tool/spread sheet/web tool exist for people planning to purchase new hosts or for those wanting greater detail on how to force compatibility using the CPUID Mask feature?</P><P></P><P>p.s I did warn you this could potentially be a total newb question </P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 30 Apr 2013 14:05:04 GMT https://communities.vmware.com/t5/ESXi-Discussions/Is-there-some-sort-of-vMotion-Enhanced-vMotion-CPU-compatibility/m-p/1356637#M128515 lukeglazebrook 2013-04-30T14:05:04Z Re: Is there some sort of vMotion/Enhanced vMotion CPU compatibility tool in existence? Spreadsheet, webbtool? https://communities.vmware.com/t5/ESXi-Discussions/Is-there-some-sort-of-vMotion-Enhanced-vMotion-CPU-compatibility/m-p/1356638#M128516 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>the below article may be useful</P><P></P><P><A class="jive-link-external-small" href="http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1003212">http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1003212</A></P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 30 Apr 2013 14:09:16 GMT https://communities.vmware.com/t5/ESXi-Discussions/Is-there-some-sort-of-vMotion-Enhanced-vMotion-CPU-compatibility/m-p/1356638#M128516 Troy_Clavell 2013-04-30T14:09:16Z Re: Is there some sort of vMotion/Enhanced vMotion CPU compatibility tool in existence? Spreadsheet, webbtool? https://communities.vmware.com/t5/ESXi-Discussions/Is-there-some-sort-of-vMotion-Enhanced-vMotion-CPU-compatibility/m-p/1356639#M128517 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Yes if the leap is too far in generations it will fail.</P><P>EVC will address some of that.</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 30 Apr 2013 18:12:55 GMT https://communities.vmware.com/t5/ESXi-Discussions/Is-there-some-sort-of-vMotion-Enhanced-vMotion-CPU-compatibility/m-p/1356639#M128517 Cyberfed27 2013-04-30T18:12:55Z