On Dec 21, 2010, at 9:41 AM, Drew <drew.kay at gmail.com> wrote: > > > On 12/19/2010, John R Pierce <pierce at 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. >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> CentOS mailing list >> CentOS at centos.org >> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >> > 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