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pdarcysgi
Contributor
Contributor

disable vSMP

Hi

Is it possible to disable vSMP on ESX 3.5 and if so how do I do it?

Thanks

P

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Rockapot
Expert
Expert

Have not got VC open now however I am sure you can just uncheck the license option for vSMP which will prevent it from being used.

Carl

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pdarcysgi
Contributor
Contributor

unfortunately doing that would also disable usage of the SAN which wouldn't be an option.

thanks

P

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Rockapot
Expert
Expert

Yeah your right. I see the SMP option is not under Add-Ons so it cant be disabled as a single item.

Carl

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jose_maria_gonz
Virtuoso
Virtuoso

Hi there,

The vSMP license only is necessary when you assign more than one vCPU to a VM.

If your VMs don´t need more that one vCPU then you won´t need vSMP.

rgds,

J.

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MZ11
Enthusiast
Enthusiast

Why do you want to disable vSMP?

If you don't need this feature, don't use it.

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