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Logical Processors - Understanding

The document discusses logical processors and how they relate to physical cores and licensing of SQL Server 2012. Logical processors subdivide a server's processing power and enable parallel processing. SQL Server 2012 licensing is based on physical cores, not logical cores. Virtual machine licensing may incur additional fees if a logical processor is assigned to more than one virtual core.

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Logical Processors - Understanding

The document discusses logical processors and how they relate to physical cores and licensing of SQL Server 2012. Logical processors subdivide a server's processing power and enable parallel processing. SQL Server 2012 licensing is based on physical cores, not logical cores. Virtual machine licensing may incur additional fees if a logical processor is assigned to more than one virtual core.

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UnderstandingLogicalProcessors
Posted:March26,2012
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Logicalprocessorssubdivideaserver'sprocessingpowertoenableparallelprocessing.Shownhereisaserverwithtwophysicalprocessors
withaviewofhowtheOSrecognizestheresultinglogicalprocessors.
AphysicalprocessoralsoreferredtoasaCPU,asocket,oroccasionallyasapackageisachipthatisvisibleonacomputer'scircuitboard.Most
modernphysicalprocessorshavetwoormorecores,whichareindependentprocessingunits.Typicalserverswillhavemultiplephysicalprocessors
withatleastfourorasmanyas10coresineach.
AlogicalprocessorisperceivedbyWindowsasaprocessor,andeachlogicalprocessoriscapableofexecutingitsownstreamofinstructions
simultaneously,towhichtheOScaninturnassignsimultaneousindependentunitsofwork.WindowsServerenableseachcoretoappearasalogical
processor,sotheservershownhere,whichhastwoquadcorephysicalprocessors,canhaveeightlogicalprocessors.Someprocessorssupporta
technologycalledsymmetricmultithreading(whichIntelcalls"hyperthreading"),whichenablesacoretoexecutetwoindependentinstructionstreams
simultaneously.Ifthetechnologywereenabledhere,theresultwouldbe16logicalprocessors.
WhileSQLServer2012offerslicensingthatispercore,thatlicensingisbasedonphysicalcores.Thenumberoflogicalcoresisirrelevanttotheper
corelicensingcostswhenlicensingphysicalservers,andinsteadonlyplaysaroleinthenumberoflogicalprocessorsthatWindowsandSQLServer
cantechnicallysupport.
Virtualmachines(VMs)arelicensedbasedontheconceptofa"virtualcore,"whichisaprocessorasviewedbytheVMguestOS.Logicalprocessors
haveapotentialeffectintheirlicensing,asMicrosofthasstatedthatassigningavirtualcoretomorethanonethreadatatime(twoormorelogical
processors)orassigningalogicalprocessortomorethanonevirtualcoreatatimemayincuradditionalcorelicensecharges.

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