On 07/11/2011 16:45, Reindl Harald wrote:
Am 07.11.2011 17:42, schrieb John Beranek:
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.
in newer VMware versions (Workstation 7/8) you can assign virtual CPUs and cores per virtual CPU, i guess VMware ESXi 5 will have this feature too, but not my nested vm is currently not running and production will stay on ESXi 4.1 for some time....
Still doesn't answer how many sockets you're using if you have a RHEL 5/6 guest VM with 2 (or 4) virtual VMware processors...
John.