The EVC Mode column is not empty when a virtual machine is powered on or suspended outside of an EVC cluster

Products

• VMware vCenter Server

Issue/Introduction

This article provides information regarding the EVC Mode column where if it is not empty, it does not mean that EVC is enabled for a virtual machine. It is to inform the user that the virtual machine is exposed to CPU features that would require an EVC mode of at least that level to admit the virtual machine to an EVC cluster. When a virtual machine is already in an EVC cluster, the value displayed in the column should be at that level or an earlier CPU generation.

Symptoms:
When a virtual machine is powered on or suspended outside of an EVC cluster, you see this symptom:

The EVC Mode column is not empty.

Environment

VMware vCenter Server 6.7.x

Cause

This occurs due to the limitation in the software that was removed in VMware vCenter Server 6.7. This has caused some confusion on the meaning of the EVC column.

Resolution

This is expected behaviour in VMware vCenter Server 6.7.