CPU compatibility issue when Migrating

Products

• VMware vSphere ESXi

Issue/Introduction

When trying to move VMs off storage Node but when try to move them get an error saying that the CPUs are not compatible:

Environment

VSphere ESXi [ALL VERSIONS]

Cause

vMotion requires the same family of CPU among the ESXi hosts which ensures the same CPU feature set to be presented to all virtual machines. 
Any vSphere cluster can have hosts belonging to either Intel or AMD.

EVC cannot be enabled on a cluster with mixed processors from both Intel and AMD. For vMotion to work, it needs compatibility in terms of host processors in the cluster.

vMotion will fail if the source ESXi host CPU features are not supported on the destination ESXi host.

Note: vMotion requires the source and destination ESXi hosts to present the same CPU generation feature set.

Resolution

Follow the Workaround section of ERROR: The target host does not support the virtual machine's current hardware requirements.

Workaround:
To work around the The target host does not support the virtual machine's current hardware requirements error when EVC cannot be enabled, perform a powered-off cold migration of the virtual machine.