On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 10:42 AM, John Beranek john@redux.org.uk wrote:
On 02/11/2011 10:31, Patrick Lists wrote:
On 11/02/2011 11:02 AM, Tony Mountifield wrote:
What is a "socket" in their pricing model? The word can mean so many different things...
Afaik it refers to a physical cpu socket. So they count actual cpu's, not the amount of cores in each cpu.
I was just asking myself this very question the other day, and I couldn't determine how many sockets you are using if you use, say, 2 _virtual_ processors.
John.
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The sockets refers to the literal, physical CPUs. Virtual CPUs (for guests) or cores do not count. Unless your running some kind of mainframe you will likely have a server with anywhere from 1-2 sockets. My understanding of the licensing is that you pay for the host/hypervisor/machine to have RHEL, plus however many guests the license includes. So 4 or unlimited.
Example: my server has 2 sockets, 4 cores each. If i paid for RHEL unlimited guests on 2 sockets...I could have only 2 virtual machines each with 4 virtual CPUs, or 8 VMs with 1 vCPU each. That's still within the license. Sockets is referring to the things that are LGA775 or AM3+.
- Trey