[CentOS] redhat vs centos

Mon Nov 7 16:45:34 UTC 2011
Reindl Harald <h.reindl at thelounge.net>


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....

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