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VMware vSphere 6.7 Cookbook

You're reading from   VMware vSphere 6.7 Cookbook Practical recipes to deploy, configure, and manage VMware vSphere 6.7 components

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2019
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ISBN-13 9781789953008
Length 570 pages
Edition 4th Edition
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Abhilash G B Abhilash G B
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Preface 1. Deploying a New vSphere 6.7 Infrastructure FREE CHAPTER 2. Planning and Executing the Upgrade of vSphere 3. Configuring Network Access Using vSphere Standard Switches 4. Configuring Network Access Using vSphere Distributed Switches 5. Configuring Storage Access for Your vSphere Environment 6. Creating and Managing VMFS Datastores 7. SIOC, Storage DRS, and Profile-Driven Storage 8. Configuring vSphere DRS, DPM, and VMware EVC 9. Achieving High Availability in a vSphere Environment 10. Achieving Configuration Compliance Using vSphere Host Profiles 11. Building Custom ESXi Images Using Image Builder 12. Auto-Deploying Stateless and Stateful ESXi Hosts 13. Creating and Managing Virtual Machines 14. Upgrading and Patching Using vSphere Update Manager 15. Securing vSphere Using SSL Certificates 16. Monitoring the vSphere Infrastructure 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Using VMware Enhanced vMotion Compatibility (EVC)

As your ESXi clusters scale-out, though it is imperative to have CPUs of the same make and model, you could end up having newer servers in the cluster with uncommon processor feature sets. To be able to migrate VMs between hosts in the cluster, it is necessary to guarantee that the CPU feature sets of all the ESXi hosts in the cluster are identical. This is achieved by enabling EVC on an ESXi cluster.

The following diagram will help you with decision-making when you're planning to use EVC:

How to do it...

The following procedure will help you to enable EVC on a cluster with no running VMs:

  1. Connect to vCenter Server using the HTML5 client.
  2. Select the DRS cluster, navigate...
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