Home Use License

[AvayaGuy]

Hello all. I am trying to figure out what I can do about a license issue I am having. I currently run esxi 5.5.0 at home with a free home license. The only limitation to this license that I can see for me is that it only supports 1 cpu with unlimited cores. I need to upgrade this somehow to at least 2 cpu's with 8 cores each. Is this possible to do with the home version free license, or do I need to buy the upgrade somehow? Thank you in advance for your help.

[cykVM]

As far as I know there is no limitation to physical CPUs and cores in the free ESXi 5.5 license. Just a limit of 8 vCPUs per VM.

See for example: http://www.virtualitworld.co.in/vmware-vsphere-5-5-hypervisor-free-esxi-limitations/

The limitation you mentioned was in 5.0/5.1 but no longer in 5.5

[Sateesh_vCloud]

Just curious about your requirement:  I need to upgrade this somehow to at least 2 cpu's with 8 cores each

If this is LAB setup - what options features you are looking for?

Is your Hardware having 1 Physical CPU - which is giving 1 vCPU with multiple cores?

If this is the case - first you need to look at Physical CPU of your hardware not the License.

Hope this information is helpful.

[AvayaGuy]

Yes this is for a lab / home setup. I am looking for something that can run all my household media, such as plex on windows 7 or server 08, plus a lot of testing / training VM's such as avaya communications manager which requires 3 -6 CPU each. I just purchased a dell r610 with 2 physical 6 hex cores, and wanted to know if it would work with free home version. I have had my free home license for quite some time, perhaps I need to refresh it and get a new license that is up to date with 5.5?

[a_p_]

You shouldn't have an issue with adding the same free license key as you already use for the current host. The license information shown depends on the hardware, so with a 2 CPU system you should see 2 CPUs with unlimited cores with the free license.

André