On 06/17/2014 01:07 PM, Nicolas Ecarnot wrote:
Hi,
I'm trying to add some Westmere hosts into a Sandybridge cluster, and of course, they get refused :
"Host xxxxxxxxx moved to Non-Operational state as host does not meet the cluster's minimum CPU level. Missing CPU features : model_SandyBridge"
I tried to lower the cluster level but I get this warning : "Change Cluster CPU level There are running VMs. Lowering the Cluster CPU level might prevent migration of these VMs to some of the Hosts in the Cluster. Are you sure you want to continue?"
As a frightened chicken, I clicked "Cancel" and turned to you : how safe is it to lower the CPU level? I understand some instructions will be missing, and maybe performance will change, but we don't have heavy CPU usage yet, so this may not be a big issue. I was wondering what will happen to my existing VMs? Will I have to modify some setup? What may prevent migration between westmere and sandybridge hosts?
Regards,
(assuming not relevant, but for next person googling...) live migration of VMs may fail / misbehave in such a case. we do not currently check the original cpu level to compare it during live migration.