On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 10:42 AM, John Beranek <john@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 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.
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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
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