Maximum cores per CPU - VMWare Essentials

[DocteurWatson]

Hello everybody,

we purchased Vsphere Essentials Plus, and installed on 2 hosts, 1 Intel 2 CPU 4-cores, and one AMD Opteron 2 CPU 6-cores. Since none of the CPUs exceed 6 cores, I'd have expected to be able to use 1 more server with 2 CPUs, but the system reports that we've used all the possible CPUs.

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How many cores can we have for 1 CPU: maximum 6, as most often found, or less than 6, as sometimes found ?

Thank you for your help

Michel Vasic

[AntonVZhbankov · Accepted solution]

Opterons you have are with 12 cores per socket, so they use 2 licenses each.

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[DocteurWatson]

Thank you for your support. I thought that the VMWare environment was wrong, but after a check on the HP web site, I realised that you are right: I asked a server with 2 6-core CPUs but was sold a server with 2 12-core CPUs !

Michel