EVC question

[huwy]

Hello,

We have a 3 node cluster where the (blade) hosts have Intel Xeon E5-2630 v4 - Broadwell CPUs

We can only now buy blade servers with Skylake processors.

I just wanted to check, we will be able to add a SkyLake host into the existing EVC cluster?

Can anyone confirm that it is ok to do this - I thought not, but the below says that it is compatible?

Thanks for any advice,

Al

[SupreetK]

Yes, looks like you will be able to add the Skylake hosts to the existing Broadwell-EVC cluster -

VMware Knowledge Base​

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Supreet

[IRIX201110141 · Accepted solution]

Yes its supportet and will work. We running a Cluster with IvyBridge, Haswell, Broadwell and new Skylake CPUs. As long as the new CPU doesnt comes with less or a missing CPU feature compared to the old one you always will be fine. This is true for the standard XEONs. The older X7 and others a different.

You should take a look to the Spectre/Meltdown patches which adds CPU features.

In my long time i only see it one time that EVC cant help because AMD dropped 3DNOW years ago in their newer CPU. Shutdown and maybe unmasking a feature for the old hosts was not an option for that customer.

Regards,

Joerg

[HassanAlKak88]

Hello,

Noting that it seems supported as per the VMware compatibility guide.

So go ahead

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