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Ontap Select (eval) InvalidCPUSpeed ,,ClusterDeployFailed

Soapfish — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 11:01:34 GMT

topic:
Available CPU speed is: 13568 MHz. Minimum required: 13568 MHz.
tweak required

Hi colleagues,

so fare so good.
till the deployment inside Deploy Utility:

System specs:
vsphere 6.7
Host on: VMware ESXi, 6.7.0, 10302608Modell:SH67H3Prozessortyp:Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2600K CPU @ 3.40GHzLogische Prozessoren:8

Ontap Select:
ONTAP Image Version 9.7

Cluster Size Single node cluster

Error:
Cluster deploy failed. Review the events in the events tab to rectify the cluster configuration and try deploying the cluster again.
Events
1)
ClusterDeployAccepted
ClusterDeployAccepted
2020-07-13 09:28:13+02:00
Deployment request for cluster "cl1" accepted.
2)

InvalidCPUSpeed: Insufficient CPU speed in MHz for the combination of selected instance type and reservation percentage. Available CPU speed is: 13568 MHz. Minimum required: 13568 MHz.

Conclusion:
Yes its not a Haswell core.
but its also not going to be a production environment .

and maybe if it would say: "your cpu speed is not sufficient" I would not write this post.

but it says: my speed is just the same as the speed required.

how ever,
I am not going to buy a old cpu, to replace a very old cpu. for lab usage the system was and is just ok.
so maybe someone can guide me through a workaround of this.

I tried it via gui deployment
also via cli
the error is still the same.

so where is this setting stored ? can I overrule it ? or -force deployment.

and help would be great.

many thanks
/soapfish

Re: Ontap Select (eval) InvalidCPUSpeed ,,ClusterDeployFailed

Soapfish — Wed, 15 Jul 2020 18:24:53 GMT

update:

different Host different cpu

same issue:

(ONTAPdeploy) job monitor -request-id 1209
[Request 1209 (failure)]: InvalidCPUSpeed: Insufficient CPU speed in MHz for the combination of selected instance type and reservation percentage. Available CPU speed is: 10368 MHz. Minimum required: 10368 MHz.
(ONTAPdeploy)

cpu now is:

Hypervisor:VMware ESXi, 6.7.0, 16316930
Processor Type:Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6770HQ CPU @ 2.60GHz

Re: Ontap Select (eval) InvalidCPUSpeed ,,ClusterDeployFailed

BradParker — Sat, 07 Nov 2020 16:10:50 GMT

I just ran into the same issue--did you ever find a solution?

Re: Ontap Select (eval) InvalidCPUSpeed ,,ClusterDeployFailed

Soapfish — Fri, 07 May 2021 17:55:28 GMT

nop

but

I belive this is true

(since my cpu is intel nuc i7 i7-6770HQ CPU @ 2.60GHz << too small ,, mem is 32

https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/1001637

Solution

This issue occurs if the CPU min value is outside the valid range that the PCPU cannot serve

still would be nice to know how to tweek this. its test lab so please...