What? My cluster is not vSphere compatible?

[acnsys]

Ok so i have checked the vmware compatibility guide and i cant see my blades (HP Proliant BL360 G1 with Intel Xeon X5355) vSphere-compliant :

Anybody can confirm?

Thanks

[LarsLiljeroth]

Hi

I don't know the blade you mention. BL360 ?? I know the BL 460. Are you sure about the model. ?

This one is supported.

HP ProLiant BL460C Quad-core Intel Xeon X535


// Lars Liljeroth

-

---

*If you found this information useful, please consider awarding points for "Correct" or "Helpful". Thanks!!!

[acnsys]

Oups....typo...I meant BL460 yes.

I am confused by the Site Survey tool, i just ran it:

VirtualCenter Server:	* acme-sm02 *
Generated:	* Thu Jun 11 17:32:17 2009 *
VirtualCenter acme-sm02 version 2.5.0 does not support FT
Report for cluster Cluster 1
To use FT, resolve the issues marked with ✘
The following ESX hosts are members of the cluster but have CPUs that do not support FT\:
* acme-vm06.eu.mycorp.com *	* Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5355 @ 2.66GHz *
* acme-vm05.eu.mycorp.com *	* Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5355 @ 2.66GHz *
* acme-vm08.eu.mycorp.com *	* Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5355 @ 2.66GHz *
* acme-vm07.eu.mycorp.com *	* Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5355 @ 2.66GHz *

So apprently i will able to install ESX4 but wont be able to use FT, right?

[mvoss18]

DL360 (rackmount) is in the HCL as well as BL460. The CPU has to be 64-bit.

[LarsLiljeroth]

The X5355 is a 64bit CPU and is mentioned in the HCL So you are good here. As i read it it says that FT is not supported.. hmm don't know why.

// Lars Liljeroth

-

---

*If you found this information useful, please consider awarding points for "Correct" or "Helpful". Thanks!!!

[LarsLiljeroth · Accepted solution]

I can see from the link to Site Survey that it is the 53xx series in general that is not supported by FT...Not god

We have those in your dataCenter as well...

// Lars Liljeroth

-

---

*If you found this information useful, please consider awarding points for "Correct" or "Helpful". Thanks!!!

[acnsys]

Oh crap, i wont play with it soon then, i might better find another job.