VM cores and threads?

[Joseph Chrzempiec]

Hello i have a dual socket 8 cores 16 threads server for a total of 16 cores 32 threads. When I'm setting up a VM in proxmox if i wanted to setup says 6 cores and 12 threads i can not. Well what i mean is i can select the cores but there is nothing for the threads. I'm thinking i need to think of the cores part as threads or I'm wrong to think this?

Can someone please let me know how this works? I'm new to programming and still learning about how Vm's are working.


Joseph

 

[bobmc]

In relation to Proxmox, there is no real distinction between cores and threads as the available compute resource is just distributed between the running VM's and it's quite possible to over-commit the total number of virtual cpu 'cores' allocated to VM's - for example you could create and run 10 VM's, each with 4 cores and it would still work as long as each VM was not heavily loaded simultaneously.

There's a detailed explanation of CPU allocation in the admin manual which you can acccess from the 'help' icon in the GUI

 

[Joseph Chrzempiec]

Hello just a reply back. I actually found something here. This explains a lot.