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How long before VMWare supports that?

• hitpointdrew 7y ago
  Likely never. They don't even recommend having a cluster with varying Intel processors. Ideally with Vmware every machine in the cluster has the exact same model processor. Want to upgrade to a new processor? Start a new cluster.
  • kazen44 7y ago
    there is good reason for this though. Mixing different generations of cpu's makes it very hard to allow live migrations/failover of certain workloads if they depend on instructions or features that are present in some CPU generations and not in others. this gets even more confusing if you look at the product segmentation intel does on it's cpu's. Newer CPU's might not support all features older cpu's do for instance.
    • hitpointdrew 7y ago
      > there is good reason for this though I don't disagree. I was just trying to point out that it is pipe dream to think that VMWare would ever support clustering Intel and AMD together when you can't even cluster differing Intel models together.