VSphere 6.7 latest update. Violating host: Dell R620 with dual Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2670 0 @ 2.60GHz
We would like to add a lab host with dual Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2670 0 @ 2.60GHz (Sandy Bridge) to a intel Nehalem compatible cluster.
The cluster's list of compatible CPUs are listed as:
Intel® "Nehalem" Generation (Xeon® Core™ i7)
Intel® "Westmere" Generation (Xeon® 32nm Core™ i7)
Intel® "Sandy Bridge" Generation
Intel® "Ivy Bridge" Generation
Intel® "Haswell" Generation
Future Intel® processors
The host to be added is in maintenance mode. However the process throws the following error message:
The host's CPU hardware does not support the cluster's current Enhanced vMotion Compatibility mode.
The host CPU lacks features required by that mode.
com.vmware.vim.vmfeature.cpuid.ssbd
See KB 1003212 for more information.
Host is of type: vendor intel family 0x6 model 0x2d
I don't find any details about the specific CPUid field mentioned above. But I hope that someone can pop in to indicate if there is a workaround to allow my Sandy Bridge into this Nehalem compatible EVC cluster.
regards Tor
Is that host updated to the same level as the other hosts, I don't recognize the cpu feature, but I've seen this happen with microcode updates before. If the host isn't at the same patch level they aren't able to be added.
Thanks for the hint. I had a Dell R710 host in the same cluster that only had 6.5 hypervisor (6.7 is incompatible with R710). Now I'm moving the R710 out of the cluster and updating the rest of the 6.7 hosts to the latest build. I will report later how it turned out 🙂
This worked for me! I updated my standalone host to the latest patch from here, rebooted, and was then able to add the host to the cluster.