Virtual Machine - Edit Settings (CPU) Part 1 (ii)

In my previous post, I have talked about CPU.

Now in this Part 2, We are going to talk about CORE.

In this screenshot as you can see, I have used vSphere Web Client, Right Click on virtual machine & edit settings.

CPU Settings:-
2.CORE: Here I have shared an example of single socket , quad core processor.
Initially when VMware released CORES PER SOCKET, it was there to deal with software licensing issue. So as to reduce number of licenses , which were based on SOCKETS.  Further, for performance it is beyond the scope of this blog post which includes: NUMA, vNUMA CPU technologies.

An interesting example is given on this KB:2078069