On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 1:40 PM, Marti, Robert <RJM002@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > There us a difference between what is supported and what will work. > There is no software limit on the number of CPUs but there is a > support limit. Also, ES and AS don't exist in rhel5. It's Advanced > Platform or not. What confuses me is following (Taken from http://www.redhat.com/rhel/server/compare/): Under "Technical capabilities" it that page it is mentioned that "Red Hat Enterprise Linux server" supports "Up to 2 sockets", while "Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform" supports "Unlimited" sockets. Socket is described as "A Socket is the physical connection(s) on a computer system's motherboard that is designed to hold a central processing unit(s) ("CPU") regardless of the number of logical CPUs recognized by the computer system from that physical connection. Note that the socket capacity refers to the maximum number of processors that the server can be configured with, not the actual number. Consequently a server can be upgraded with additional processors with no change in subscription." Acording to this Enterprise server should support up to 2 physical processors. So if I understand this properly, you can install Enterprise server on 4 processor box (as I have here) and they will work, but that configuration is unsupported by Red Hat. To have proper support, I would need to have Advanced platform there ? Best regards, Dusan -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
