Trey Dockendorf wrote:
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.
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.
<snip> Heh. Depends on where you work: we've been getting in servers with 4, like the Dell PE 810, and some Penguins we've got, and I think the new ones (haven't opened any up) have more.
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