Hi guys, I have got a i7-2600 on a ASRock Z68 Extreme4 Gen 3 motherboard as a ESXi 5.0 whitebox setup.
I have 2 virtualised ESXi 5.0 in a cluster with a nested Linux VM running, both vMotion & Storage vMotion works fine.
If I turn on the FT while nested VM is running, I get this error:
The virtual machine is running in a monitor mode that is incompatible for Fault Tolerance.
If I shutdown the nested VM and enable FT, I encountered th following:
An unexpected error was received from the ESX host while powering on VM vm-441.
Unable to enter Fault Tolerance mode.
Record/Replay is supported for 64-bit virtual machines only on certain CPUs. Canceling Record/Replay.
I have applied the replay settings as mentioned in http://www.virtuallyghetto.com/2011/07/how-to-enable-nested-vft-virtual-fault.html
to the nested Linux VM.
Intel VT check on physical ESXi 5.0 host and both vESXi hosts :
~ # esxcfg-info | grep "HV Support"
|----HV Support............................................3
|----World Command Line.................................grep HV Support
SiteSurvey on physical host and vESXi hosts all showed:
CPU type Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2600 CPU @ 3.40GHz is not supported by FT.
Am I right to say that FT in my current nested setup should work if I changed the CPU to one listed in
http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1008027
OR is having at least 2 physical ESX hosts the only way to have full FT support ?