Virtual CPUs – The Overprovisioning Penalty of vCPU to pCPU ratios ZDNet UK (blog) VMware refers to CPU as pCPU and vCPU. pCPU or 'physical' CPU in its simplest terms refers to a physical CPU core ie a physical hardware execution context (HEC) if hyper-threading is unavailable or disabled. If hyperthreading has been enabled then a ... |