EVC support for ESXi 7.0 U3 on Xeon E5-2697 V4 and Xeon Gold 6430 processors?

[Seyfullah Kaya]

I have Xeon E5-2697 V4 and Xeon Gold 6430 processors. Do these two processors have EVC support in ESXi 7.0 U3?

[a_p_]

With EVC you define a common CPU feature set. 

In your case the latest common EVC mode available for these two CPU models is "Intel® Broadwell Generation"

André

[Seyfullah Kaya]

Ok, thanks. We are using Vcenter and esxi standard. I guess the evc feature is not used in this license model, right?

[a_p_]

EVC is available in all editions, and I recommend making use of it, especially with different server hardware.

André

[ggathagan]

No, ESXi 7 Standard includes High Availability, which is the feature that uses EVC.
In order to use EVC, you first have to create a cluster, then add hosts to that cluster.

Note that adding hosts to a cluster will put the host in maintenance mode, so all VM's on each host will need to be migrated to another host or shut down.
At that point, you would enable EVC on the cluster and follow Andre's advice on setting the EVC of each server in the cluster to the lowest common CPU feature set.