But over the years the saving in electricity consumption must have made it worth to migrate.Not surprised on the CPU drop. Heck, I know of some places in the area still running esxi4...why? Some companies want to get their "full investment" out of the stack.
Product AvailabilityWhen will it show up on VMUG?
that might kill a lot of people upgrading or moving forward with esxi at least for home or small business usage. I know if that would be the case, i might not upgrade past 6.7 for a while.E5 v1/v2 Are to be dropped in the next version I read elsewhere.
Hell, I have four dual westmere's making up the bulk of my lab at home (one 2670v1 for my always on AIO). I won't even be upgrading to 6.7.that might kill a lot of people upgrading or moving forward with esxi at least for home or small business usage. I know if that would be the case, i might not upgrade past 6.7 for a while.
If that next version is soon that’s pretty aggressive, I mean v2’s are now 4 years or just over in age, the v3’s are less 4 years still, a not insignificant number of companies use 5 year lease and 5 years for lots of people in not an unreasonable lifetime. (Even if in an enterprise running ESX 3 or 4 years lifetime is preferred due to just the fact the next version can always run more VM’s)E5 v1/v2 Are to be dropped in the next version I read elsewhere.
I don't see this section in the 6.5 release notes about any of the processors they stopped supporting in 6.7, but IIRC as far back as 6.0, the ESXi installer was throwing a warning on my Dell C1100 that the processors were going to lose support "in a future release". I haven't been able to check yet if my S2600CP with an E5 v1 throws a warning like that.The following CPUs are supported in the vSphere 6.7 release, but they may not be supported in future vSphere releases. Please plan accordingly:
- Intel Xeon E3-1200 (SNB-DT)
- Intel Xeon E7-2800/4800/8800 (WSM-EX)
Thank you for the long explanation, much appreciated. Interesting on the 56xx support, I was thinking of putting a couple of my old x8dtt nodes back into operation - this has given me second thoughts!I think we're worried about ESXi actually not working on those processors. If you try to install/upgrade to 6.7 on a Xeon 55XX/56XX processor for example, the installer will not let you proceed (and I think it won't even boot if you use an already upgraded flash drive). Official VMware support for nearly all of the Nehalem/Westmere systems ended a while ago I believe.
The 6.7 release notes do say:
I don't see this section in the 6.5 release notes about any of the processors they stopped supporting in 6.7, but IIRC as far back as 6.0, the ESXi installer was throwing a warning on my Dell C1100 that the processors were going to lose support "in a future release". I haven't been able to check yet if my S2600CP with an E5 v1 throws a warning like that.
I assume the Intel Xeon E3-1200 (SNB-DT) are the Sandy Bridge E3 v1's, so it looks like at least some Sandy Bridge processors are going to be cut off. I do hope the E5 Sandy and Ivy's get a few more years of support though.
I can sort of confirm this. I was able to successfully install 6.7 on a nested VM running on X5675s.Take this with a grain of salt, but I'm seeing reports that Xeon Westmere 5600 processors may run 6.7 contrary to the release notes. Nehalem 5500 processors seem to not work at all though.
ESXi 6.5 will continue to be patched for a while too, so it's not the total end of the road for these old systems and ESXi