Someone offered me a "real" server to replace my whitebox AMD FX-8350 running ESXi 6.5.
It is a Supermicro X8DAi w/2x Xeon X5650 hex-core hyperthreading CPUs.
What I am curious about is how ESXi vCPUs work - can I create a VM that uses all 24 threads as a single vCPU with 24 cores, or is ESXi limited to the processors themselves so the max each vCPU can have is 12 cores?
If it can do such a thing is there a performance penalty over and above the usual ESXi overhead?
It is a Supermicro X8DAi w/2x Xeon X5650 hex-core hyperthreading CPUs.
What I am curious about is how ESXi vCPUs work - can I create a VM that uses all 24 threads as a single vCPU with 24 cores, or is ESXi limited to the processors themselves so the max each vCPU can have is 12 cores?
If it can do such a thing is there a performance penalty over and above the usual ESXi overhead?