How many processors are active in box ?

[Marti, Robert]

Correct.

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On Dec 17, 2009, at 7:46, "Dusan Djordjevic" <dj.dule.liste at gmail.com>  
wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 1:40 PM, Marti, Robert <RJM002 at shsu.edu>  
> wrote:
>> There us a difference between what is supported and what will work.
>> There is no software limit on the number of CPUs but there is a
>> support limit.  Also, ES and AS don't exist in rhel5.  It's Advanced
>> Platform or not.
>
> What confuses me is following (Taken from
> http://www.redhat.com/rhel/server/compare/):
>
> Under "Technical capabilities" it that page it is mentioned that "Red
> Hat Enterprise Linux server" supports "Up to 2 sockets", while "Red
> Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform" supports "Unlimited" sockets.
> Socket is described as
>
> "A Socket is the physical connection(s) on a computer system's
> motherboard that is designed to hold a central processing unit(s)
> ("CPU") regardless of the number of logical CPUs recognized by the
> computer system from that physical connection. Note that the socket
> capacity refers to the maximum number of processors that the server
> can be configured with, not the actual number. Consequently a server
> can be upgraded with additional processors with no change in
> subscription."
>
> Acording to this Enterprise server should support up to 2 physical  
> processors.
>
> So if I understand this properly, you can install Enterprise server on
> 4 processor box (as I have here) and they will work, but that
> configuration is unsupported by Red Hat. To have proper support, I
> would need to have Advanced platform there ?
>
> Best regards,
> Dusan
>
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