ESXi 8.0 - Max EVC - No more support for iCore CPUs?

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audiophonicz

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So Ive run 6th gen i7-6700T CPUs for a few years now. Upgraded from 6.7 to 7.0, and from 7.0U3 to 8.0. Never really saw an issue.

This past week I built another host and put it in the cluster. This one is 11th gen i7-11700. Obviously mixing CPUs in a cluster, I went to set cluster EVC mode. To my surprise my 6th gen Skylake was being seen as 5th gen Broadwell, and my 11th gen Rocket Lake was being listed as 4th gen Haswell.

I cannot wrap my tiny little mind around how a brand new VCSA can say a brand new 11th gen is functionally older than a 6th gen without something being broken.

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Is anyone else seeing VCSA 8 dumb down thier iCore CPUs like this?

Is anyone running Rocket Lake on VCSA 7.0 they can check MaxEVC listing?