Enhanced vMotion Compatibility (EVC)

wikipedia:Enhanced vMotion Compatibility

• EVC solves this by creating a baseline set to the least advanced processor configuration supported by all ESXi hosts in the cluster.

VMware introduced the per-VM EVC feature in vSphere 6.7 (2018), Virtual machine hardware version 14.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_CPU_microarchitectures

• Intel® "Merom" Generation
• Intel® "Penryn" Generation
• Intel® "Nehalem" Generation
• Intel® "Westmere" Generation
• Intel® "Sandy Bridge" Generation
• Intel® "Ivy Bridge" Generation
• Intel® "Haswell" Generation
• Intel® "Broadwell" Generation
• Intel® "Skylake" Generation (2015-2019)

Related terms

• Skylake
• CPUID

See also

• VMware, VMware vSphere, VMware ESXi (ESXi Patching), VMware Fusion hypervisor for macOS, CloudFoundry, Workspace ONE intelligent hub, AirWatch, open-vm-tools, VMware Tanzu, vCenter, VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), VMFS, esxcli, vim-cmd, Storage DRS (SDRS), VSphere Lifecycle Manager, Virtualization Based Security, VMware vMotion, VMware desktop, Greenplum, VMware Workstation Player, VMware Workspace ONE: VMware Workspace ONE UEM, VMware Verify, vRO, vRA, CloudHealth, Bitnami, VMware Application Catalog
• CPU, GPU, NPU, TPU, DPU, Groq, Proliant, thread (Pthreads), processor, CPU socket, core, ARM , CPU Virtualization, Intel, AMD, nm, lscpu, AVX-512, Passthrough, CPU intensive, Graviton processor, Branch predictor, vCPU, SSE, Power