[CentOS] redhat vs centos

Mon Nov 7 21:35:24 UTC 2011
Trey Dockendorf <treydock at gmail.com>

On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 2:29 PM, <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote:

> Trey Dockendorf wrote:
> > 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.
> >>
> > 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.
>
>        mark
>
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<jealous> .  That is very true.  Your organization must also value Linux.
 Mine doesn't and is poor.  State funded University :-/.


- Trey