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I am interested in ESX Advanced for its fault tolerance feature.<br />
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I know this requires that all CPUs on the servers support the vLockstep Feature found on some AMD and Intel processors. &nbsp;<br />
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My question is do the servers have to have the same brand CPU's. &nbsp;Can I have 1 server with Intel Processors and 1 server with AMD processors and VMWare fault tolerance on them?
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I am interested in ESX Advanced for its fault tolerance feature.

I know this requires that all CPUs on the servers support the vLockstep Feature found on some AMD and Intel processors.  

My question is do the servers have to have the same brand CPU's.  Can I have 1 server with Intel Processors and 1 server with AMD processors and VMWare fault tolerance on them?

VMWare ESX vLockstep support

VMware, a software company founded in 1998,  was one of the first commercially successful companies to offer x86 virtualization. The storage company EMC purchased VMware in 1994. Dell Technologies acquired EMC in 2016. VMware’s parent company is now Dell Technologies.

VMware has many software products that run on desktops, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, which allows the virtualizing of the x86 architecture.  Its enterprise software hypervisor for servers, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on the server hardware and does not require an additional underlying operating system.