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jschneidercssi
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Jun 11, 2013 8:27 PM UTC
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ColdFusion 10 on a 4 vCPU virtual server?

We would like to install ColdFusion 10 on our web server but it's a 4 vCPU virtaul server.  Our license is for 2 physical CPUs.  When installing the software we receive a CPU count warning.  My question is, can we install and use ColdFusion on this box and just have it limit itself to 2 CPUs or will it simply not work?

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Carl Von Stetten
Carl Von Stetten
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Jun 12, 2013 5:47 PM UTC

What is the virtualization platform software? VMware, Windows Hyper-V, or something else?  If VMWare, you can configure the virtual server to have 1 CPU with 4 cores or 2 CPUs with 2 cores each instead of 4 CPUs with 1 core each.  You *might* be able to do something similar in Hyper-V.  That might satisfy the licensing?

-Carl V.

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jschneidercssiAuthor
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Jun 12, 2013 5:52 PM UTC

Unfortunately, this is Hyper-V and from my research through the documentation, there is no way to associate multiple cores to a single virtual CPU.  You can only assign the number of vCPUs but no way to assign cores per processor.

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jguana
jguana
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Jun 6, 2017 3:50 PM UTC

go direct in windows to

msconfig.exe --> start --> options

set to 2 cpu

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Anit_Kumar
Anit_Kumar
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Jun 11, 2013 9:10 PM UTC

Hello jschneidercssi,

A single ColdFusion license is a 2 CPU license (=8 cores). Please refer to http://blogs.coldfusion.com/post.cfm/coldfusion-10-eula which talks about the CF 10 licensing in detail.

Regards,

Anit Kumar

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jschneidercssiAuthor
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Jun 12, 2013 12:52 PM UTC

Thank you for the reply.  I've read the blog post but I'm still not quite clear how this works out for a virtual server that is not using physical CPUs but are using 4 cores that are setup as virtual CPUs.  Technically, this installation would be using 4 cores = 1 CPU but because it's virtuallized, the operating system is reporting 4 proccessors, which is triggering the CPU count warning during installation.

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Anit_Kumar
Anit_Kumar
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Jun 12, 2013 5:20 PM UTC

Hello jschneidercssi,

So in your scenario, there are 4 CPUs.

jschneidercssi wrote:

but are using 4 cores that are setup as virtual CPUs.

The ColdFusion installer would check both the conditions- 8 (2*4cores) cores and 2 CPUs. If any one of them fails, it would not install with the license.

Hope that helps.

Regards,

Anit Kumar

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