EVC obsolete in vSphere 6 ?

[gdesmo]

With the new vMotion capabilities in vSphere 6 is it necessary to enable evc any longer? I have several 5.5 vCenter's that do not have evc enabled on their clusters. But I will upgrade them to vSphere 6 at some point. With long distant and cross vCenter vMotion enhancements in vSpehre 6. I am thinking I can stand up a newer cluster of intel broadwell (or beyond) and live migrate workload regardless of whether evc has been enabled on source of destination vSphere 6 clusters.... Thanks

[schepp]

Hi,

EVC is still needed if your servers have different CPU generations, as you need the same CPU instruction set.

Tim

[SavkoorSuhas]

EVC is required, because migrating VMs across host having different CPU families is not possible with out EVC. You still EVC to mask the CPU Feature set to provide a homogeneous CPU feature set across your cluster.

Suhas