Per-VM EVC Issue

[jmacdaddy]

It seems that if you have Per-VM EVC enabled on a VM and you replicate it to a cluster that has a lower-level of EVC enabled on it, you will not be able to power on your replica. You will get a "No host is compatible with the virtual machine" error. Just a heads up.

[Gostev]

Thanks for sharing! Perhaps enabling per-VM EVC increases virtual hardware version of a VM (just a guess).

[foggy]

This comes from the fact mentioned here, that VM EVC mode cannot be higher than the cluster EVC mode:

If a virtual machine is in an EVC cluster and the per-VM EVC is also enabled, the EVC mode of the virtual machine cannot exceed the EVC mode of the EVC cluster in which the virtual machine runs.

[anthonyspiteri79]

Yea, this is a classic issue many run into running multiple clusters on different HW generations. My tactic was to keep EVC off ... but I know VMware says to use it where possible.

Maybe as a FR we can introduce some logic that does a check similar to what we have in Cloud Connect Replication where is looks for the HW version?