Virtualization: multi-cpu vs multi-core vs …

Another hint on vm performance, cpu settings, multi-cpu vs multi-core vs multi-cpu-core

source: vSphere 4.1: Multicore Virtual CPUs

Virtualization performance best practices: VMware vSphere …

While I was looking for infos about vm settings (cpu multi core, multi cpu, …) I found this helpfull document “Performance Best Practices for VMware vSphere™ 5.0“.
Well it wasn’t very appropriate to my need, but it helped empowering my knowledge  :) because best practices are valid in variuos scenarios.

source: Performance Best Practices for VMware vSphere™ 5.0