vSphere EVC Design for the Management Domain
EVC works only with CPUs from the same manufacturer and there are limits to the version difference gaps between the CPU families.
Decision ID | Design Decision | Design Justification | Design Implication |
|---|---|---|---|
VCF-MGMT-VCS-CLS-018 | Enable Enhanced vMotion Compatibility (EVC) on all clusters in the management domain. | Supports cluster upgrades without virtual machine downtime. | You can enable EVC only if the clusters contain hosts with CPUs from the same vendor. |
VCF-MGMT-VCS-CLS-019 | Set the cluster EVC mode to the highest available baseline that is supported for the lowest CPU architecture on the hosts in the cluster. | Supports cluster upgrades without virtual machine downtime. | None |