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Disabling CPU Cores via BIOS on P470F PE 730 Supported?
Hi,
Is disabling cores in the server BIOS officially supported by DellEMC for VxRail P470F Nodes using Dell PE 730?
This is for an Oracle use case when trying to stay within a customer Oracle Core License limit, and the additional cores specified in the nodes are not needed to satisfy the workload per VxRail 4.0 Sizer.
The specific Node spec is: P470F w/ Dual E5-2637v4 4C per Socket 3.5GHz w/ 256GB.
Looking to disable 4 of the 8 pCores per node.
Thank You!
marquesj
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March 15th, 2017 06:00
No this is not supported. If you are looking to limit the amount of cores, perhaps looking at different appliance configurations that can limit the number of cores may be more appropriate.
westma
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March 15th, 2017 07:00
Thanks Jason. I'm using the lowest core cpu option offered already in my configs, which is the Dual E5-2637v4 4C per Socket. Single socket node types are not an option as those nodes do not offer the 4 core cpu options.
Bill_Leslie
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March 15th, 2017 09:00
Alternatively, if customer can leverage DRS and VM-Host affinity rules, they might be able to limit which nodes in the VxRail cluster they need to license Oracle against.
marquesj
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March 15th, 2017 09:00
This may be an example then of vSAN Ready Nodes possibly being a better fit since they may have additional hardware configuration options that go beyond what is available on VxRail today.
Jeremy.Merrill
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March 15th, 2017 13:00
markwesteastern - not sure if you've seen this, but based on the version of Oracle running, it may help.
https://blogs.vmware.com/apps/2017/01/oracle-vmware-vsan-dispelling-licensing-myths.html