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Vmware dynamic or fixed CPU

I am running vmware 4.1. How can I tell if the VCPU's are dynamic or fixed. I always presumed they were fixed and you could not have dynamic?
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What do you mean dynamic vCPUs? Are you talking about being able to add CPU hot? If this is what you mean see this link

http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-4-esx-vcenter/index.jsp?topic=/com.vmware.vsphere.vmadmin.doc_41/vsp_vm_guide/configuring_virtual_machines/t_change_cpu_hotplug_settings.html
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How can I make them static or is this possible?
You can make them static, by fixing a VM to a specific core, changing affinity, but why would you want to do this, when we pay lots of money to VMware and let the Hypervisor do the donkey work, of moving the VM from Core to Core for us?

Edit the CPU Options in the VM, change the Affinity to a specific core.
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Thanks this answers my questions and shows where to make the changes