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tjosh52
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‎07-15-2009 06:44 PM

ESXi 3.5 u2 processors

I am not sure if this is by design or not but on the server licensed features page it says I am only licensed for 1 CPU. I have a single quad core cpu and it appears that ESX is only using 1 core. Can someone shed some light on this please?

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AndreTheGiant
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‎07-15-2009 10:27 PM

True.

License are per socket, not per core.

With a license server (or with ESX 4.0) you can a granular license model (you pay for populated socket).

Andre

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AntonVZhbankov
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‎07-16-2009 12:13 AM

License is for physical CPU no matter single-core, dual-core or quad-core.


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weinstein5
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‎07-16-2009 05:06 AM

Welcome to the Forums - AS the others have said ESX is licensed per Physical CPU - but it will treat each core on that CPU as a Logical CPU and schedule virtual CPUs to those logical CPUs - so you will utilize all 4 cores -

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