Esxi5.1

[ArielStu]

Hi

Question

The Number of virtual sockets     is the  number of Physical Cores ?

Number of cores per socket        is the number if Physical threads ?

So the total i can choose is     The Number of virtual sockets X Number of cores per socket =  Number of Physical Cores X 2   (total Threads)

is that correct ?

Thanks

[MKguy]

When you configure the CPU settings for the VM, the number of virtual sockets denotes how many sockets (=CPUs, NOT cores) the guest will see.

The number of cores per socket tells how many cores each of these CPUs will see.

So if you set the former to 2 and the latter to 4, your VM and guest OS will see 2 quad-core CPUs.

For a single VM, you will only be able to configure as many total cores (in whatever socket/core combination) as the physical host has physical CPU threads available. So on a dual CPU quad-core Xeon with HT physical system, you can assign a VM virtual 16 cores at maximum.