[CentOS] Intel NIC

Wed Dec 22 02:24:01 UTC 2010
Ross Walker <rswwalker at gmail.com>

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.
>> 
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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