One Virtual Core equals one hardware thread; one physical core equals two Virtual Cores
Catalog row in Vendor License Rules · Cited
- Kind
- Virtualization
- Statement
- Exhibits A-1 and A-2 define the Virtual Core as a virtual representation of processing power that maps to a single hardware thread. A customer that can only count physical processing cores counts each physical core as two Virtual Cores. No hard or soft partitioning policy or host-level alternative is published. (Rev July-2025, effective 2025-07-01)
- Applies when
- Counting Units on physical servers, virtual machines and cloud instances.
- Applies to
- Azul Core and Azul Prime vCore Units
- Related metrics
- Related programs