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Recommend use EVC (Enhanced vMotion Compatibility) to run vMotion with different CPUs

hongchuong — Wed, 15 Jul 2015 14:55:21 GMT

Hi everyone !

Can you recommend me use EVC to run vMotion with different CPUs.

I have 3 servers :

- IBM server with CPU intel 2.xenon E7520 1.87GHz

- IBM server with CPU intel 2xXeon 10C E7-4860 2.27Ghz

- HP HP DL580 with CPU intel E7

So I have questions this .

When i config HA cluster to run vMotion.

1. Can IBM server with CPU E7 and HP server with CPU E7 run vMotion ?

2. With 2 version different CPUs are E7000 and E7520 they run vMotion ?

3. Configure VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager then Have 2 Sites to run vMotion ?

So, if have 2 servers with Xeon 30xx Series ( EVC leve 0 ) and Xeon 31xx Series (EVC leve 0 - EVC leve 1).

Can they run vMotion ? if yes , then will run with EVC leve 0 ?

Thank .

Anjani_Kumar — Wed, 15 Jul 2015 15:11:52 GMT

1. Yes it will run vmotion. after configuring evc.

2. evc is meant for mix and match the different family of cpu and Hardware vendor. VMware KB: Enhanced vMotion Compatibility (EVC) processor support

vmotion will run .but i believe evc leve 0 will work then.

hongchuong — Fri, 17 Jul 2015 09:39:35 GMT

Dear Anjani_KumarAnjani_Kumar !

Thanks for support.

Best regards.