sockets or virtual cpus?

Aug 19, 2019
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Hi together,

this may have been asked many times before, sorry: I want to switch from a free PVE installation to a paid one, as this fine software is worth it ;-). On my data center root server I have

CPU(s)

8 x Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6700 CPU @ 3.40GHz (1 Socket)
Kernel Version

Linux 5.3.18-1-pve #1 SMP PVE 5.3.18-1 (Wed, 05 Feb 2020 11:49:10 +0100)

I assume, that I only need "1 CPU per year" (because its only one physical socket), not eight, correct?


Thanks for some clarification,
Thommie