On Dec 21, 2010, at 9:41 AM, Drew drew.kay@gmail.com wrote:
On 12/19/2010, John R Pierce pierce@hogranch.com wrote:
On 12/19/10 8:40 AM, Les Mikesell wrote:
But the ESXi version isn't exactly fair to someone who would deploy on the hardware intended. Also, the restriction to 1 CPU isn't built-in - there's a place where you select the number of CPUs you will use when you are registering for the free license. I don't know what the actual maximum is, but it is at least 2 with a fairly large number of cores.
I'm running the free ESXI on a 4-socket (single core opteron) server, no problems with the licensing, and I don't recall it asking how many cores per socket, just how many sockets.
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I can confirm the socket/cpu limitation is at least 8, at least on ESXi 3.x. I have an 8 core IBM x445 running on a free license. :-)
The free and essentials licensing is restricted to max 2 sockets, max 6 cores a socket.
-Ross