Splunk vCPU equals a distinct hardware thread of execution
Catalog row in Vendor License Rules · Cited
- Kind
- Counting
- Statement
- Purchase Capacity and Limitations, Splunk Offerings (August 2026) (Splunk Enterprise row, Capacity column): "“vCPUs” refers to the virtual CPUs to which Software has access. Each virtual CPU is equivalent to a distinct hardware thread of execution in a physical CPU core."
- Applies when
- Counting vCPUs for an infrastructure license.
- Applies to
- Splunk Enterprise infrastructure licenses
- Related metrics