We are currently evaluating VMWare Enterprise Plus and are trying this using a Cluster containing an HP ML110 G6 and a G7. We have created the cluster fine and were able to get around all errors presented to us by applying EVC Mode using the Intel® "Nehalem" Generation baseline:
Applies the baseline feature set of Intel® "Nehalem" Generation (Xeon® Core™ i7) processors to all hosts in the cluster.
Hosts with the following processor types will be permitted to enter the cluster:
Intel® "Nehalem" Generation (Xeon® Core™ i7)
Intel® "Westmere" Generation (Xeon® 32nm Core™ i7)
Intel® "Sandy Bridge" Generation
Future Intel® processors
Compared to the Intel® "Penryn" Generation EVC mode, this EVC mode exposes additional CPU features including SSE4.2, POPCOUNT, and RDTSCP.
For more information, see Knowledge Base article 1003212.
This was the only baseline to validate fine for both hosts in the cluster.
Whenever we try to turn FT on for a VM on one of these hosts we get the following error:
Host CPU is incompatible with the virtual machine's requirements
Mismatch detected for these features:
CPU model does not match
I thought that this was what EVC was supposed to get around? Are we not going to be able to test the full features of vMotion HA/FT with these 2 machines?
Any thoughts?
EVC is really designed to allow live migration between differemt processor families for DRS and vMotion - have you confirmed your CPUs are on the approved CPUs for FT? check here http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=100802...
Hello and welcome to the communities.
EVC won't make available features that aren't present in the system. Check out http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1005764 for more info.
You should be able to test vMotion and HA fine with these systems, since it appears that ESX/ESXi was installed on them. FT might be the one feature that you can't test. If you decided you want FT, make sure to use the VMware HCL to choose systems that are listed as supported for FT.
Good Luck!
