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?
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
License is for physical CPU no matter single-core, dual-core or quad-core.
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VMware vExpert '2009
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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