What is a benefit of using Enhanced vMotion Compatibility for an environment?

EVC works by configuring every host in a cluster to expose only the CPU instruction set features of a selected baseline generation - effectively masking newer CPU capabilities - so that a VM running on a newer host presents the same CPU feature set as hosts with older processors, enabling vMotion to succeed across dissimilar hardware.

EVC does not enable vMotion between different hypervisor platforms; it exclusively addresses CPU feature compatibility for live migrations within a single vSphere cluster.

Long Distance vMotion is a separate vSphere feature that enables VM migration across geographically dispersed sites over high-bandwidth WAN links and is unrelated to CPU masking.

Storage vMotion migrates a VM's disk files between datastores while the VM remains running and is a completely independent feature from EVC, which only manages CPU compatibility for compute-layer migrations.