I was planning on building a large VM environment for SQL 2008 Enterprise. I only just realized that the maximum number of vCPUs you can assign to a VM is 8 based on this document:
http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere4/r41/vsp_41_config_max.pdf
As I understand it each vCPU corresponds directly to a single core on the physical processors. Does this in turn mean that the maximum processing capacity I can get for a single VM is the equivalent of 2x quad core processors (8 cores = 8 vCPU) or is there another way to work it so that I can get more than that?
I'm concerned about this particular SQL environment needing more processing capacity than 8 cores/vCPUs.
Ideas? Or do I have to take this environment out of VMware and deploy physical?