I google around to find out how many cores in intel xeon e5420 cpu, but not got the actual answer.
I have intel xeon e5420 cpu, I would like to run multiple virtual machines with 2 cores on each, how many Virtual machine I can have? Please.
Thank you in advance.
The Intel Xeon E5420 CPU has 4 cores, as clearly documented here; it doesn't support hyperthreading, thus it can run a maximum of 4 concurrent threads.
This of course doesn't mean anything in terms of how many virtual machines it can run, because this strongly depends on what the VMs are actually doing, not on how many vCPUs you allocate to them.
xeon e5420answers you #cores question as do most if not all of the first page of results including the amazon pages. I don't see how you failed to see that. – user9517 Feb 15 '16 at 12:35