Thanks for the confirmation. I was able to install esx 7.0U3 on a gigabyte z690i aorus ultra ddr4 using an intel i9-12900k. I know an i9-12900k on a mini itx mb is a bit absurd but I had to try!It depends on which ADL. You’ll have to set cpuUniformityHardCheckPanic=FALSE set in the boot.cfg.
ESXi doesn’t work well with both P-cores and E-cores enabled the last time I checked. I have the E-cores disabled in BIOS. As long as you are only enabling one type of core you shouldn’t have any major issues.
Your experiments make me a bit jealousMy main objective for this experiment was to get a system that would support pcie gen5. I have a mellanox connectx-7 on order and it is a dual port 200GE pci gen5 nic. that nic would oversubscribe a pcie gen4 x16 slot but a gen5 x16 slot should not be the limiting factor.
Hisome more progress. I manually added the cpuUniformityHardCheckPanic=FALSE during boot via the shift o and was able to boot with both P and E cores. Do you know how I can make that setting persistent? It seems like I need to enter that command manually each time I boot. The only advanced system setting that I saw in the UI was the following:
VMkernel.Boot.checkCPUIDLimit
That is currently set to true. I am not sure how to modify the boot.cfg after installing.
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I am still trying to see if we can get 24 threads (8 of the P cores hyperthreaded plus 8 of the E cores). from vmware's perspective, it shows a cpu resource of 51 GHz with this current config. If I disable the E cores, the P cores are hyperthreaded but the cpu resources are only about 25 GHz.
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8C/16T so Pcores only.Hi
You mentioned that you enabled both P & E cores. But as per screenshot, its showing only 16 Logic. Proces. (that means only 16 cores - P cores)
Is that right?