ESX/ESXi Behaviour with standard or free license on HW with more than 6 core

[Saffanu]

I'm wonderig what's happens if I run a ESX standard license on processor with more than 6 core.

For example after Installation of ESX on an OCTO-Core processor HW, what happens after insert a license key that is not Advanced or Enterpise Plus,

Could I run VM using only 6 of the 8 core? or the system prevent me for start any VM because of core limitation of my license?

[idle-jam · Accepted solution]

The core limitation would be the license understanding the total of physical cores. that is different from the standard or free license which would give you 4 SMP (max 4 vCPU at one time).

If you're using non advance or enterprise plus, then the license would only see max 6 cores per processors and ignore the other 2 cores. You could still use your VM as usual. 😃

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[Dave_Mishchenko]

I haven't had an opportunity to test this, but according to this you should be able to combine licenses to use all cores in the processor.




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