Hi
After recently buying some new servers, our environment now has 3 different generations of Intel cpu's that we'd still like to use with vmotion.
Currently all clusters are set to `Westmere` EVC mode. Do you think this mode is still ok in 2016 now we are 3 generations down the road. Has there been many new instructions recently that really give some applications a boost that we might be missing out on still using Westmere instruction set?
From what I've read, Westmere and newer offers better encryption performance for apps (https, iis etc), but for the most part all the other recent instructions for x86 haven't added anything extra for 99% of applications.
Reading:
http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2014/06/enhanced-vmotion-compatibility-evc-affect-performance.html
Thanks.
After recently buying some new servers, our environment now has 3 different generations of Intel cpu's that we'd still like to use with vmotion.
Currently all clusters are set to `Westmere` EVC mode. Do you think this mode is still ok in 2016 now we are 3 generations down the road. Has there been many new instructions recently that really give some applications a boost that we might be missing out on still using Westmere instruction set?
From what I've read, Westmere and newer offers better encryption performance for apps (https, iis etc), but for the most part all the other recent instructions for x86 haven't added anything extra for 99% of applications.
Reading:
http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2014/06/enhanced-vmotion-compatibility-evc-affect-performance.html
Thanks.
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