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‎08-28-2007 03:56 PM

VmWare Enterprise Licensing

Hello,

I have two servers quad core each with only one physical processor.

In this case how many licenses of VmWare Enterprise do I need to purchase?

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sbeaver
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‎08-28-2007 04:06 PM

They only sell it in 2 processor bundles so you would need 1 license of 2 sockets

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‎08-28-2007 04:18 PM

If I understand you correctly I'll only need to get 1 license of VMWare Enterprise Which will be valid for my two servers, right?

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sbeaver
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‎08-28-2007 04:23 PM

In theory yes. I have not tried connecting an ESX server with only one CPU socket to the license server but the logic says it will work

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(ISBN:1420070274) from Auerbach
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‎08-29-2007 04:31 AM

I've done this at a customer site and can confirm it works fine. One 2 CPU ESX license can be used to license two single CPU hosts as long as you are using a license server based license.

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‎08-29-2007 08:16 AM

Thanks

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dominic7
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‎08-29-2007 09:41 PM

I believe what you propose doing will work, however I also believe it's not a legal way to license the servers. ESX has a 2 (physical) processor minimum requirement, and doesn't allow for a single license to be split across multiple servers. I'd dig up the leagalese but I'm feeling lazy.

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