The system could not recognize the multi-cpu from VMware host

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • It assigns six cores to rhel guest in VCenter layer. But the system only recognizes one core in /proc/cpuinfo.
Number of virtual sockes = 6    ---> from VCenter

[test@rhel6 rhel6test ]$ cat proc/cpuinfo |grep processor
processor       : 0

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • kernel-2.6.32-573.el6.i686
  • VMware guest

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