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.