Configuring VMware Enhanced vMotion compatibility

EVC features enable a user-configurable setting of a common CPU feature baseline across a cluster. This ensures that vMotion is seamless within a given family of CPU vendors—Intel or AMD.

Getting ready

Ensure you look at the VMware Compatibility Guide to validate the EVC modes supported by the CPU make and model of your server hardware. You could also download a utility from the VMware portal, available at https://www.vmware.com/support/shared_utilities.html. This utility provides a detailed report of hardware compatibility and software configuration compatibility with advanced VMware features.

How to do it...

The following procedure will help you configure EVC on an ESXi cluster:

1. Connect to vCenter Server with the appropriate privileges.
2. Ensure that there are no powered-on virtual machines (power-off or migrate VMs accordingly).
3. From the vCenter's inventory home, navigate to the Hosts and Clusters view.
4. Click on the Configure tab, select VMware...