[Info-vax] VSI Community License Program - x86

[John H Reinhardt]

On 4/16/2023 3:37 PM, Single Stage to Orbit wrote:
> On Sun, 2023-04-16 at 12:06 -0400, 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).
> 
> I can confirm mine has 8 logical codes assigned to the OpenVMS VM. It
> boots up and sees all 8. I think I could add even more if I wanted to.


How many license units does it use? My virtual machine with 4 vCPU used 4 of the 6 available.

$ show lice/unit
This is an VMware, Inc. VMware7,1, with 4 cores active
Type: PCL,   Units Required: 4  (X86_64 Per Core)
$
$ show lice/usage

View of loaded licenses from node SCALZI                16-APR-2023 16:31:05.07

------- Product ID --------   ---- Unit usage information ----------------
Product            Producer       Loaded  Allocated  Available  Compliance
ABS-CLIENT-X86     VSI                 6          4          2  Yes
ABS-SERVER-X86     VSI                 6          4          2  Yes
ACMS               VSI                 6          4          2  Yes

*snip*


John H. Reinhardt