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. :-)
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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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