Essential plus license with HP DL380 G8

[MontriN]

I have a vsphere 4 essentials plus license which capacity for 6 CPUs.

Previously, I used 2 of HP DL385 G7, each one have 2 CPU(AMD opteron 6134, 6 core CPU). So by the essential plus license I have 2 CPU available for assign to the third machine.

Then I replace both DL385 G7 with DL380 G8. For each DL380 G8 server I have 2 CPU(Xeon E5-2690, 8 core CPU).

Then I faced an issue about license. One DL380 G8 with 2 Xeon CPU use 4 CPU license insteda of 2.

Why?

Is this because of the 8 core CPU?

How can I fix this if i want to add the third server?

If I upgrade to 5.1 then I will face the same issue or not?

[a_p_]

Welcome to the Community,

can't tell you for sure, but yes, this is most likely caused by the 6-cores/socket limitation with vSphere 4. Your options are either to disable cores in the hosts' BIOS or - as you mentioned - upgrade to vSphere 5 which does not have physical core limitations anymore.

André

[MontriN]

As you said, I try to disable CPU core in BIOS, enable 6 core instead of 8 core. Then I check the license, now it used 2 CPU license instead of 4.

Thanks for the info.

[a_p_]

You are welcome and thanks for the feedback/confirmation.

André