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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>It gives the “Host CPU type is not compatible with Cluster Properties” message, and it doesn’t matter what CPU compatibility level I set it to (I’ve tried all of them) it gives the same error. I’ve seen a few others with this kind of issue but not a solid description of how to modify the database to include processor families prior to Conroe.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><a name="_MailEndCompose"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></a></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> Donny Davis [mailto:donny@cloudspin.me] <br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, September 24, 2015 7:19 PM<br><b>To:</b> Chas Ecomm <chashock@speakfree.net><br><b>Cc:</b> users <users@ovirt.org><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ovirt-users] Older hardware deployment<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p>What errors are you getting?<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Sep 22, 2015 5:47 PM, "Chas Ecomm" <<a href="mailto:chashock@speakfree.net">chashock@speakfree.net</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>I’ve searched on this issue all over the place and not found a full answer.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>I’ve got a lab with older Dell PE860 servers with Pentium D processors. We are attempting to prove out that we can move from VMware to KVM and oVirt, but with 3.5 we can’t get these servers to enter into a cluster due to the age of the processors.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>I’ve seen it referenced in a few list entries to modify ‘the database’ to put CPUInfo entries in for the processor capabilities of this processor, but it is unclear to me and I’ve been unable to find any documentation that speaks to what database and how to modify it safely.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>I know we could update these servers and get better power consumption, heat generation, etc., but it’s not in the cards and I can’t move my newer servers until we prove it out with these older ones, which ran ESXi 5.5 with absolutely no issue. This cluster will be a functional test and small tools cluster ultimately, so I don’t really care about their lower end specs, either.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Would installing something older than 3.5 help me here? Or is there some doc somewhere I’ve just not found that describes this process of updating the DB with these CPU parameters.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>TIA!!<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br>_______________________________________________<br>Users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Users@ovirt.org">Users@ovirt.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users" target="_blank">http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users</a><o:p></o:p></p></blockquote></div></div></body></html>