A customer of mine had 2 other companies doing Vmware consultancy services for them, hte customer has now asked me to help with what was originally installed.
There is currently 2 ESX 3.5 U2 servers in place, with different hardware. Server A is a HP DL380 G5 with 2quad Core E5420 2.5GHz processors, Server B is a Dell Poweredge III 2950 with 2Quad Core L5335 2Ghz Processors. I am proposing creating a HA/DRS cluster using both servers. I have checked the Vmotion compatibility matrix and the processors seem to be ok.
Are clusters with different hardware vendors a common thing in ESX?
Any input greatly appreciated
Thanks,
Gary
It'll work just fine - the cluster Vmware themselves used for the DRS VmMark was from mixed vendors.
I would not say they are "common" place as most VM implementations are built with same spec servers however I am sure companies are using clusters with mixed servers in some instances.
Carl
Hi,
I don't think it is that common between vendors. But probably pretty common between the same vendor but with different servers.
I would go for it. If vmotion works be happy
Best regards
Frank Brix Pedersen
I agree . it's not very common but still supported. We do all our clusters on the same hardware
Best regards
Lars Liljeroth
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It'll work just fine - the cluster Vmware themselves used for the DRS VmMark was from mixed vendors.
Thanks to everyone for the replies, points awarded...
In relation to licensing, 1 of the boxes (the HP one) has enterprise license in use, and the Dell box has foundation license installed (host based I think), can the foundation license be "upgraded" to enterprise license?
Thanks again,
Gary
As long as the vMotion CPUID matrix is fine then you should be OK. vMotion checks only for CPU compatibility in terms of features. it is hardware agnostic.
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