Db2 VPC on a physical server: OnlineCPU divided by HMTDegree
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- Statement
- IBM Db2 12.1: on a physical server the VPCs to license equal physical cores; with hyper-threading, Number of VPCs = OnlineCPU / HMTDegree (db2pd -osinfo). Example: 2 sockets x 8 cores with HT degree 2 shows 32 CPUs; license 16 VPCs. Virtual machines always report HMTDegree 1.
- Applies when
- Licensing Db2 VPC on bare metal with SMT/hyper-threading enabled.
- Applies to
- IBM Db2 VPC editions.
- Aliases
- db2pd -osinfo; HMTDegree
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