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What does "up to 2 sockes" mean in RHEL license "Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Premium (up to 2 sockets)

senthil_kumar_1 — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 17:56:10 GMT

Hi All,

I would like to know what does "up to 2 sockes" mean in RHEL license "Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Premium (up to 2 sockets)"

Re: What does "up to 2 sockes" mean in RHEL license "Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Premium (up to 2 sockets)

Patrick Wallek — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 19:29:39 GMT

That means you can up to 2 CPU chips in the server. For example you could have 2 dual-core, 2 quad-core cpus or 2 6-core cpus on the server.

Re: What does "up to 2 sockes" mean in RHEL license "Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Premium (up to 2 sockets)

senthil_kumar_1 — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 19:59:13 GMT

If I have 4 6-core servers. Will this license not work / can I not use this license?

Re: What does "up to 2 sockes" mean in RHEL license "Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Premium (up to 2 sockets)

Patrick Wallek — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 04:34:57 GMT

>>If I have 4 6-core servers. Will this license not work / can I not use this license?

As long as the 6 cores are in a single CPU chip then yes, this type of license should work fine.

Re: What does "up to 2 sockes" mean in RHEL license "Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Premium (up to 2 sockets)

Alzhy — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 15:25:39 GMT

Yes Senthil - even with current 10-core INTEL CPUs, you can have RHEL Premium 2-sockets work on 2 CPU sockets -- givbing you a 20-core system 40-way with HT on.

Amazing ain't it?

You also I think only need to pay Oracle Standard RDBMS std for 2 sockets -- but am not 100% sure.