Re: Intel v3 and v4 CPUs in the same cluster

2017-02-15 Thread Nando Beifiori
Thanks for the clarification. In this specific case v3 is a Haswell-noTSX while v4 is a Broadwell, with the latter that has 6 more features (according to the cpu_map.xml ) So, I reckon an agent.properties set as follows would work: guest.cpu.mode=custom guest.cpu.model=Haswell-noTSX Thanks agai

Re: Intel v3 and v4 CPUs in the same cluster

2017-02-10 Thread ilya
https://media.readthedocs.org/pdf/cloudstack-installation/4.8/cloudstack-installation.pdf Page 76 explains it.. you want for CPU instructions sets to match and be consistent if you plan to run v3 and v4 cpus in the same cluster. Regards ilya On 2/10/17 8:23 AM, Rafael Weingärtner wrote: > From m

Re: Intel v3 and v4 CPUs in the same cluster

2017-02-10 Thread Rafael Weingärtner
>From my experience, yes it would work. At the end what matter are the CPU capabilities, meaning the instructions tha can be used by operating systems (O.S) and their processes, in this case, VMs can be considered processes in the hypervisor (hypervisors are OS). We normally do the masking to hide

Re: Intel v3 and v4 CPUs in the same cluster

2017-02-10 Thread Nando Beifiori
Hi Rafael, in this case the hypervisor is KVM and I think it supports masking, but let me check if I got it right: if the CPU is not exactly the same the features can be masked using hypervisor's capabilities. Does it mean that if the CPU has the exact same features but different frequency for e

Re: Intel v3 and v4 CPUs in the same cluster

2017-02-10 Thread Rafael Weingärtner
It depends on your hypervisor. For XenServer, you should check the CPU feature you have and if the CPU supports masking [1]. xe host-cpu-info > Look for the "features" information, and then check if your hardware guy can provide a processor with similar features or one that supports masking the s

Intel v3 and v4 CPUs in the same cluster

2017-02-10 Thread Nando Beifiori
Hi all, quick but very important question: I have a cluster with Intel Xeon E5-2667 v3 CPUs and I need to add another host, but my provider has replaced the v3 with the v4 of the same CPU. The differences are: - Lithography (22nm > 14nm) - Cache size (20MB > 25MB) - Max Memory Bandwidth