Consideration For Server Hardware

[muchiri]

Hello Everyone,

Planning to purchase a server hardware for a HA environment, do i need to consider the CPU family of the new server hardware? i have Dell R740xd with 2 socket Intel(R) Xenon(R) Bronze 3104 CPU @1.7Ghz, must the new server hardware have the same CPU family?

Thank you

[maksym007]

Ideally yes, you have to have the same CPU model and RAM capacity. 

EVC CPU option might help you to solve your potential issues with different CPU models/generations - but why to risk? 

[scott28tt]

As your post needs moving to the area for ESXi, I have reported  it to the volunteer moderators.

[muchiri]

Hello Scott,

I thought i am posting to the ESXI group? 

Anyway, supposing the CPU family is no longer on market, can the next family works as well?

[maksym007]

If you are not able to catch the same CPU, try the same vendor. 

Read more here about EVC here

https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/1005764 

[scott28tt]

Your post was created in the area for ESXi on ARM (eg. Raspberry Pi) - there is a much busier area for regular ESXi, that's where I've asked the moderators to move the post to.