On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 10:42 AM, John Beranek <john at 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. > > 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. > > John. > > -- > John Beranek To generalise is to be an idiot. > http://redux.org.uk/ -- William Blake > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > 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. Example: my server has 2 sockets, 4 cores each. If i paid for RHEL unlimited guests on 2 sockets...I could have only 2 virtual machines each with 4 virtual CPUs, or 8 VMs with 1 vCPU each. That's still within the license. Sockets is referring to the things that are LGA775 or AM3+. - Trey