[CentOS] Intel NIC

Sun Dec 19 20:19:38 UTC 2010
John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com>

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.