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Does ESXi licensed for dual dualcore? posted: Mar 27, 2009 10:57 AM

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ChanKaiShi
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Feb 25, 2006

Hi,

I have dual dual-core server (4 CPUs total). I understand ESXi only licensed for 2 CPUs, are those physical or logical ones?

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Re: Does ESXi licensed for dual dualcore?

1. Mar 27, 2009 10:58 AM in response to: ChanKaiShi
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Troy Clavell
7,222 posts since
Oct 12, 2007
licensing is done by the physical socket, not cores. When you download ESXi you can specify how many socket licenses you will need.

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