VCP-VVF IT Architectures Technologies Standards Practice Question
An administrator is designing a multi-cluster vSphere Foundation 9.0 architecture and wants to implement Enhanced vMotion Compatibility (EVC) across clusters containing both Intel Xeon Scalable (Ice Lake) and AMD EPYC (Milan) processors. What is the design limitation regarding EVC in this scenario?
Answer choices
Why each option matters
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Correct answer & explanation
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Cross-vendor EVC between Intel and AMD physical processors is architecturally unsupported.
EVC spans across processors within the same manufacturer family (e.g., Intel to Intel, AMD to AMD). Cross-vendor EVC between Intel and AMD physical CPUs is not supported.
Answer analysis
Option-by-option breakdown
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Cross-vendor EVC between Intel and AMD physical processors is architecturally unsupported.
Why this is correct
Correct. EVC baselines can only normalize feature sets between processors from the same hardware vendor (Intel-to-Intel or AMD-to-AMD).
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Cross-vendor EVC requires vCenter Server to be deployed on a physical Windows Server with hardware virtualization enabled.
Why it's wrong here
vCenter is deployed as a Linux-based appliance and does not enable cross-vendor CPU migration.
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EVC automatically emulates AMD instruction sets on Intel hosts using binary translation vCPUs.
Why it's wrong here
ESXi does not emulate cross-vendor CPU instruction sets via binary translation for live migration.
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Cross-vendor EVC is supported as long as the lowest common denominator SSE4 instruction set is enabled in the BIOS.
Why it's wrong here
Instruction set normalization does not bypass the architectural hardware vendor barrier in EVC.
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