Virtual Iron Engineer
You also have to be worried about programs that check for CPU and use specific functions within that CPU. When you then move to other CPU that don't have the functions the OS may stay up and running but the application may crash.
In house we have done this, but don't recommend customer to LiveMigrate from between Intel and AMD.
Save your self some money and check out Virtual Iron. It does not require identical hardware.
Virtual Iron Engineer You also have to be worried about programs that check for CPU and use specific functions within that CPU. When you then move to other CPU that don't have the functions the OS may stay up and running but the application may crash. In house we have done this, but don't recommend customer to LiveMigrate from between Intel and AMD.