I have a couple Dell PowerEdge 6950 servers. Each server has 4 dual core sockets for a total of 8 physical cores. I will be hosting many Windows Servers 2003 and 2008 Standard edition servers.
If I set each VM to use one virtual CPU, would this just put a load on one core and leave the other 7 cores wasted, or does it span the single virtual CPU load across all eight physical cores?
One of my VM’s will host a MySQL database that utilizes a pretty heavy CPU load and I would like to tap the full potential of my servers.
thanks,