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. -- John Beranek To generalise is to be an idiot. http://redux.org.uk/ -- William Blake