[Users] CPU: Westmere vs. Ivy Bridge

[Doron Fediuck]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Joshua Dotson" <josh at wrale.com>
> To: users at ovirt.org
> Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2014 7:19:26 PM
> Subject: [Users] CPU: Westmere vs. Ivy Bridge
> 
> Hello,
> 
> The nodes on the cluster I'm installing have Ivy Bridge CPUs . The latest
> choice I see in the hosted-engine installer is Westmere. Am I missing out on
> anything significant by choosing Westmere in this case? Is there any plan to
> add Ivy Bridge as an option?
> 
> Even if there is no difference behind the scenes from choosing Westmere,
> having an Ivy Bridge option would have saved me the time it took to reverse
> engineer the need to look at the source code to the need for the CPU family:
> instruction sets (performance?).
> 
> Thanks,
> Joshua

Hi Joshua,
this is probably due to a missing patch.

Can you please open a bug for it?