Comments on: Use Coreinfo to view VM core and socket count http://www.vcritical.com/2009/09/use-coreinfo-to-view-vm-core-and-socket-count/ Informed Virtualization Criticism Wed, 24 Apr 2013 06:27:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Eric Gray http://www.vcritical.com/2009/09/use-coreinfo-to-view-vm-core-and-socket-count/#comment-9484 Eric Gray Fri, 15 Jan 2010 19:15:33 +0000 http://www.vcritical.com/?p=1633#comment-9484 Yes, Enterprise Plus is needed for 8-way SMP and for now, that is the limit for a single VM.

]]> By: ColbyA http://www.vcritical.com/2009/09/use-coreinfo-to-view-vm-core-and-socket-count/#comment-9482 ColbyA Fri, 15 Jan 2010 18:39:36 +0000 http://www.vcritical.com/?p=1633#comment-9482 Is my understanding of VMWare licensing correct that only the top of the line Enterprise Plus edition will allow one VM to access all 8 cores of a modest 2x4core server like you are discussing?

If you have a 2x6core server, would a single VM ever be able to use all the CPUs?

http://www.vmware.com/products/vsphere/buy/editions_comparison.html

]]> By: Stephen Pampell http://www.vcritical.com/2009/09/use-coreinfo-to-view-vm-core-and-socket-count/#comment-9375 Stephen Pampell Thu, 17 Dec 2009 23:07:16 +0000 http://www.vcritical.com/?p=1633#comment-9375 msinfo32 also works.

]]> By: Eric Gray http://www.vcritical.com/2009/09/use-coreinfo-to-view-vm-core-and-socket-count/#comment-8146 Eric Gray Fri, 02 Oct 2009 23:28:15 +0000 http://www.vcritical.com/?p=1633#comment-8146 Dan, looks like CPU-Z works as well. Thanks for the contribution.

]]> By: Dan Robinson http://www.vcritical.com/2009/09/use-coreinfo-to-view-vm-core-and-socket-count/#comment-8135 Dan Robinson Fri, 02 Oct 2009 04:47:19 +0000 http://www.vcritical.com/?p=1633#comment-8135 Eric, give CPU-Z from http://www.cpuid.com a try and see if it also properly reflects Cores vs CPUs. Might be an easier time for some people rather than command line tool. (Don’t get me wrong, I’m a CMD geek in Windows myself)

]]> By: Virtualization Short Take #30 - blog.scottlowe.org - The weblog of an IT pro specializing in virtualization, storage, and servers http://www.vcritical.com/2009/09/use-coreinfo-to-view-vm-core-and-socket-count/#comment-8126 Virtualization Short Take #30 - blog.scottlowe.org - The weblog of an IT pro specializing in virtualization, storage, and servers Thu, 01 Oct 2009 16:39:33 +0000 http://www.vcritical.com/?p=1633#comment-8126 [...] multiple cores per socket to a virtual machine. Duncan’s post is here; Eric’s post is here. As Eric points out, licensing is one potential use. Anyone have any other valid use [...]

]]> By: Huggy les bons tuyaux & licensing au socket - Hypervisor.fr http://www.vcritical.com/2009/09/use-coreinfo-to-view-vm-core-and-socket-count/#comment-8089 Huggy les bons tuyaux & licensing au socket - Hypervisor.fr Tue, 29 Sep 2009 16:18:35 +0000 http://www.vcritical.com/?p=1633#comment-8089 [...] avec ESX(i) 4.0 de contrôler la “présentation” des core(s)/socket(s) dans une VM. Eric de vcritical va plus loin en nous faisant connaitre un outil du célèbre Mark Russinovich (aka pstools-man) nommé coreinfo. [...]

]]> By: Eric Gray http://www.vcritical.com/2009/09/use-coreinfo-to-view-vm-core-and-socket-count/#comment-7964 Eric Gray Wed, 23 Sep 2009 13:00:20 +0000 http://www.vcritical.com/?p=1633#comment-7964 Ralf, thanks for the comment. I enjoyed that last sentence. :-)

Of course, if the vendor is charging per core in the first place, there is no advantage to grouping multiple virtual cores into a virtual socket.

Thanks for reading VCritical.

Eric

]]> By: Ralf Kraudelt http://www.vcritical.com/2009/09/use-coreinfo-to-view-vm-core-and-socket-count/#comment-7963 Ralf Kraudelt Wed, 23 Sep 2009 11:46:55 +0000 http://www.vcritical.com/?p=1633#comment-7963 “If this license is enforced only by a legal agreement, and not by technology, then there is still no problem — configure a four vCPU VM on a system with a quad-core processor and you are in the clear.” – you are not in the clear. You should carefully read your legal agreement. In our case (IBM Informix IDS database server/per processor license) they count physical cores, no matter how many vCPUs you configure in your VM. We like CPU power and VMware features more than we like IBM, so we changed our database vendor.

]]> By: Tweets that mention VMware ESX presents single-core CPU sockets to virtual machines, but this behavior can be modified | VCritical -- Topsy.com http://www.vcritical.com/2009/09/use-coreinfo-to-view-vm-core-and-socket-count/#comment-7957 Tweets that mention VMware ESX presents single-core CPU sockets to virtual machines, but this behavior can be modified | VCritical -- Topsy.com Wed, 23 Sep 2009 05:55:16 +0000 http://www.vcritical.com/?p=1633#comment-7957 [...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by premsankar. premsankar said: RT: @PlanetV12n: Use Coreinfo to view VM core and socket count (VCritical) http://bit.ly/3LS63E [...]

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