Brandon wrote:

 

I'm currently running vCenter 5 with vSphere 4.1i

 

When I choose Edit Settings on a VM and highlight CPU it says:
Number of virtual sockets:
Number of cores per socket:

 

I'm a little confused on what those are. My ESX servers all have 2 quad core processors. With that said, the total virtual sockets I can have is 2 correct?

Hi

nope, you can have up to 8 virtual sockets (1 core per socket) per VM or for example, 2 virtual sockets with 4 cores pers socket

Artur

The virtual sockets/cores per socket can be used to assign multiple virtual CPUs to a VM. With your hardware (2 quad core processors) you have 8 cores (disregarding HyperThreading) which will allow you to assign up to 8 vCPUs to a guest OS depending on the ESXi license. Since some operating systems do not support that many CPUs you can use the cores per socket setting to present the vCPUs as multi core vCPUs to the VM.

André