On Monday 07 November 2011 22:23:09 Reindl Harald wrote:
Am 07.11.2011 22:50, schrieb Marko Vojinovic:
Typically, you have no way of knowing the physical structure of the "cloud machine" where your virtual machine is being hosted. Also, this structure may even change over time due to upgrades of the cloud hardware (by the cloud provider). You wouldn't even know about it.
again:
the physical structure does not matter you pay for virtaul CPUs as you do also for virtual appliances of some vendors where you can get a license with 2 vCPUs or 4 vCPUs - independent if you have your own hardware or using any hsoting service
what is there so difficulty to understand?
Well, what I don't understand is how many vCPU's are equal to one socket.
Or, to be explicit, let me invent an example: suppose that I have leased virtual hardware from some 3rd party, and have obtained a virtual machine with 6 vCPU's. I want to buy RHEL licences to install on that machine. AFAIK, RH counts licences in sockets. How many licences should I buy? Or, iow, how many sockets is equal to 6 vCPU's?
Does RH have a formula for the number of sockets as a function of the number of vCPU's (and vice versa)?
Best, :-) Marko