Correct. Sent from my iPhone On Dec 17, 2009, at 7:46, "Dusan Djordjevic" <dj.dule.liste@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
