I am in the middle of upgrading the host cluster in our lab environment from ESXi version 6.7U3 to 7. I have already updated the vCenter Server appliance to version 7. I have created a baseline using the ESXi 7 ISO and have tried to update the cluster using the Life Cycle Manager but the scan says that baseline is compatible. I have vSAN configured and DRS is set to fully automatic mode.
Hardware wise, the lab consists of a Dell VRTX chassis with 4 M640 blade servers. Each blade has 2 x Intel Xeon Silver 4114 CPUs & 384 GB of RAM. I believe the hardware should be compatible, the compatibility matrix suggests so.
Anyone have an idea as to why the baseline would be incompatible?
Hello pondy001,
Welcome to vmware communities.
The Intel Xeon Silver 4114 series of CPU will be compatible with "Skylake" generation baseline.
Regards,
Sudeshna Sarkar
VMware vSphere support moderator
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