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.... -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 262 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20111107/d1e56e37/attachment-0005.sig>