Maximum amount of CPU cores supported by open server management

[ngoodall]

Hi,

What is the maximum amount of CPU cores supported by open server management.

Thank you in advance.

Nico

[PhoneBoy]

Management servers are not specifically core limited.
That only applies to Security Gateways.

[Chris_Atkinson]

Since monster VMs don't necessarily makes sense the main limit is choosing something from the HCL.

[Timothy_Hall]

As Dameon said there are no core limits enforced on management.  The automatic resource and Java heap size scaling tops out at 12+ cores for a SMS, so while having more than 12 cores certainly won't hurt it probably won't provide any appreciable performance gain. 

Based on some testing I performed in the past, there was a noticeable increase in SMS performance as each core was added up to 8, then only minor improvement for cores 9-12, and no perceptible improvement beyond 12.  For MDS/Provider-1 however more cores beyond 12 can certainly help for configurations with a large number of Domains/CMAs.