How do you get a vCPU count?

[degunny]

I recently ran into a VI3 environment where they had reached the maximum vCPU count per ESX server. I had them add an additional ESX server to the cluster. As part of this incident I started researching how to go about getting a count of vCPUs on ESX; with no luck. Anybody have a tool or command I can use to address this?

[DSTAVERT]

http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-10556

[lamw]

Here is a script that'll extract the # of vCPU's per vCenter cluster: , might be more useful to look at it at a cluster level versus per individual ESX(i) host.

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