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August 11th, 2011 08:00
Dell R710 2 socket and Dell R810 4 socket configuration in VMware ESX
Hello All,
I wonder if someone have experience with configuration of 2 and 4 socket cpu's in VMware ESX.
A customer of us claims that the older 2 socket systems performs better than the new 4 socket systems.
Have anybody an idea, what changes in the ESX configuration must be made to take advantage of the new 4 socket systems?
Hopefully anybody have any news on this.
Regards Jerry.
I wonder if someone have experience with configuration of 2 and 4 socket cpu's in VMware ESX.
A customer of us claims that the older 2 socket systems performs better than the new 4 socket systems.
Have anybody an idea, what changes in the ESX configuration must be made to take advantage of the new 4 socket systems?
Hopefully anybody have any news on this.
Regards Jerry.
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August 11th, 2011 13:00
Pretty sure you have to have enterprise before you can use 4 sockets. Pretty sure you have to be specifically licensed to use 4 sockets in place of two sockets. The standard licenses are for pairs of physical CPU's typically where 6 cores gives you three hosts.
As far as the old hosts outperforming the new hosts? We have had some experience with that. Our 2970's (9th gen Dell servers) seem to outperform our new R415. Same number of cores, same two number of sockets / CPU's, only the R415 has 64GB of ram and the old 2970's have 32GB of ram.
The older 2970's use AMD 2425HE 2.1ghz and the R415 uses AMD 4170HE 2.1ghz
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