Anyone know about the vCPU max per VM for a paid vSphere 5.5 essential kit?
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I just purchased a Dell R630 server with 2 XEON 8 core CPU, and intend to use 1-2 core for RSA auth manager 8.1 and a 14 cores as workstation for those number hungry geeks.
RSA recommends to use VWware ESXi 5.5, and told me it is completely free - which is good. But the free version of VWware ESXi 5.5 only allow me to configure a 8 cores/vm.
I am trying to see if a paid vSphere 5.5 essential kit would be lifting the max vCPU/vm limit, but after intensive googling online, I got different answers.
For example, some of the post on this forum, said that paid version has the limit lifted. But if you read VMware's document: http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere5/r55/vsphere-55-configuration-maximums.pdf, it says 2 numbers:
Virtual CPUs per virtual machine (Virtual SMP) - 64
Virtual CPUs per virtual machine 1
which number is right?
So I tried to call VMware to confirm it before purchase, but no-one returns my phone call. (maybe because our company is less than 1000 employee? sigh).
Then I tried to call Dell directly asking the same question, and after 1 1/2 hours waiting, I got this answer (presumably from VMware support specialist):
The max. 8 vCPU / vm would still be there for any paid version of vSphere, because, the XEON CPU has only 8 cores, and therefore, vSphere can only configure VM no more than 8 cores.
Does it make sense at all? For me, this does not sound right at all. Anyone any comment?
