Thursday, October 23, 2008

VMware EVC - incompatible ?

When installing some brand spanking new DL585 Quad Core systems I was unable to initially enable EVC for the new servers.   Both new servers were showing as having incompatible hardware.
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The answer was the No Execute Page Protection being disabled by default.  I was also surprised to find that the AMD Virtualization support was also disabled by default.   I also saw some posting in the VMware forum that other newer HP models have the same default setting.  Once the settings were adjusted,  EVC was no longer reporting incompatible hardware.