VMware Cloud Foundation - Design Decision - Enable Enhanced vMotion Compatibility (EVC) on all clusters.
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VMware Cloud Foundation - Design Decision - Enable Enhanced vMotion Compatibility (EVC) on all clusters.

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Article ID: 318086

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Issue/Introduction

Design Decision: Enable Enhanced vMotion Compatibility (EVC) on all clusters.

Resolution

Design Justification: Supports cluster upgrades without virtual machine downtime.

Design Implication: You can enable EVC only if clusters contain hosts with CPUs from the same vendor.

This design decision is supported in the following Domains. 
•    Management Domain
•    VI Workload Domain

This design decision is supported on VCF version 4.1 and higher. 

Note: To search for additional information on this design decision please search on the design decision text in https://docs.vmware.com/. For example https://docs.vmware.com/en/search/#/%22Enable%20Network%20I%2FO%20Control%20on%20all%20distributed%20switches.%22

Additional Information

Please reference the VMware Cloud Foundation version you are running and if this design decision is applicable to you. 

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