[Info-vax] VSI Community License Program - x86

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 4/16/2023 3:12 PM, John H Reinhardt wrote:
> On 4/16/2023 11:06 AM, fsword007 at gmail.com wrote:
>> Many modern CPU processors has more then 6 cores.  Does it affect VMS
>> clusters?  Mine has 12 cores (i7-8700K).
> 
> Yes.  If you form a VMSCluster with more than one X86 system in the 
> cluster the max cores can be 6 for all x86 members.  You can still have 
> non-VMSCluster member x86 systems with up to 6 cores each.  I assume it 
> probably also means threads if the CPU Hyperthreads - so perhaps 3 CPU 
> cores/6 Threads?  Not sure about that.

Which again points to VM's over physical machines.

With a VM you should be able to just allocate the 6 VCPU
for a single node or 3 nodes of 2 VCPU for a cluster or whatever
from the physical machines whether it got 12 or 24
or even higher.

Arne