Vmotion Compatibility

[michele_distasi]

I 'am planning to build an ESX4.0.1 cluster with two HP DL380G5 and one IBM HS12 Blade. The CPUID generates the data listed below, are they compatible with VMotion by VirtualCenter (last version).

CPUID HP DL380G5

Family :06 Model:17 Stepping :6

ID1ECX ID1EDX ID81ECX ID81EDX

0X000CE3BD 0XBFEBFBFF 0X00000001 0X20000000

VENDOR :INTEL

BRAND STRING :INTEL XEON CPU X5450 @ 3.00GHZ

SSE SUPPORT :SSE1 ,SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, ESS4.1

SUPPORTS NX/XD :NO

SUPPORTS CMPXCHG16B :YES

SUPPORTS RDTSCP :NO

HYPERTHREADING :YES

SUPPORTS FLEX MIGRATION :YES

SUPPORTS 64-BIT LONGMODE:YES

SUPPORTS 64-BIT VMWARE :YES

SUPPORTED EVC MODES :NONE

Blade HS12

Family :06 Model:17 Stepping :A

ID1ECX ID1EDX ID81ECX ID81EDX

0X040CE3BD 0XBFEBFBFF 0X00000001 0X20000000

VENDOR :INTEL

BRAND STRING :INTEL XEON CPU X3323 @ 2.50GHZ

SSE SUPPORT :SSE1 ,SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, ESS4.1

SUPPORTS NX/XD :NO

SUPPORTS CMPXCHG16B :YES

SUPPORTS RDTSCP :NO

HYPERTHREADING :YES

SUPPORTS FLEX MIGRATION :YES

SUPPORTS 64-BIT LONGMODE:YES

SUPPORTS 64-BIT VMWARE :YES

SUPPORTED EVC MODES :NONE

Thanks in advance.

[kopper27]

yes they are compatible but in order for those processors to support migration you need to enable EVC - Enhanced VMotion Compatibility - in your cluster

they support 2 types of EVC

1. Intel® Xeon® Core™2

2. Intel® Xeon® 45nm Core™2

Intel® Xeon® Core™2 Applies baseline feature set of Intel® Xeon® Core™2 (Merom)processors to all hosts in the cluster.

Intel® Xeon® 45nm Core™2 Applies baseline feature set of Intel® Xeon® 45nm Core™2 (Penryn)processors to all hosts in the cluster. Compared to the Intel® Xeon® Core™2 EVC mode, this EVC mode exposes additionalCPU features including SSE4.1

more information about EVC

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