How many cores does server 2008 support?
Hello,
Sorry for posting if it is in the documentation but i cannot find it there.
How many processorcores in total can server 2008 support?
Many Thanks
June 13th, 2007 6:11pm
Only got one answer so far, but that answer says four and beyond with a smiley. So running Quad-core today should be possible, and when you look at the virtualization demos there's 16. Not an official standpoint though.
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June 14th, 2007 12:41pm
Well i would be surprised to see them changing the supported numbers of cpus from what Windows Server 2003 series have.
Microsoft have since a few years been using a licensing model depending on the number of cpu's not cores.
Read more here:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/windowsserver/evaluate/features/compare.mspx
note that there are differences between x86 and x64 versions.
June 14th, 2007 10:44pm
We will support up to 512 Cores with the c64 edition of Windows Server 2008.
Ward
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June 15th, 2007 9:45pm
>>We will support up to 512 Cores with the c64 edition of Windows Server 2008.
Can you please elaborate?
1)you mean x64 not c64 right?
2)How many cores will say the Enterprise Version support, and how is this related to the number of sockets & hyperthreading exactly?
eg.
Windows 2008
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/editions/specifications.mspx
shows Datacentre at 64 sockets.
How are the 512 cores to be supported?
- by 64 CPU's at 8 cores each
or
- by 64 CPU's at 4 cores each, and each core with 2 threads (SMT/hyperthreading etc.), in which case this is 512 threads not cores.
Thanks
SImilarly, Enterprise only supports 8 sockets, so does this give it 32 cores or 64 cores?
2)Another question re: Windows 2003 Server, R2...
It supports 8-way symmetric multiprocessing (SMP). Does this mean it only supports 8 cores, or even 8 threads (SMT/hyperthreading? )
, or does it support 8 sockets, with any number of cores & threads?
Unfortunately the Microsoft WebSite does not go into enough detail on any of these.
Windows 2003
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/windowsserver/evaluate/features/compare.mspx
Thanks
Cheers
Minas
January 3rd, 2008 2:54pm