Question about ESX and licenses 2

[geranimo666]

Hello to all-

This is a rather large company that is using a licensed copy of ESX - we use Virtual Center (infrstructure 3)..

My question: Are licenses applied per CPU based on the VM? So if for instance I have a virtual machine using 4 virtual cpu's does that mean one license was used for this creation OR is each virtual CPU in need of an individual license.

I am willing to call VMware directly but thought to ask the experts here first

thanks for any information provided
Geranimo

 

[LarryTheCucumber]

It is licensed by the number of physical CPU's in the server.
When VMware starts it tests for the number of cpu's against the license. I am not sure how they count dual core.

 

[pathaide]

we just went through this in house and was told that the licenses count against the number of physical processors so therefore a dual core or quad core processor is only one license

 

[comtec17]

The 2 answers above are absolutly correct. 1 Physical Multi-Cored CPU is licensed as 1.

 

[geranimo666]

Thanks to all for this information!

I appreciate it

geranimo

 

[smithrob]

And licenses are sold in increments of 2