Comments on: What do 8 cores mean for ESX licensing?

By: The VMguy

The VMguy — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 01:23:12 +0000

Thanks for the assist Mike, I knew I read that link but didn’t have it bookmarked.

By: JustinE

JustinE — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 23:49:19 +0000

Before Dunnington, it said 4-cores in the Multicore Policy. Before the chips actually shipped, it changed to 6. Before that, it was 2 CPUs and before quad-cores came out it changed to 4. I don’t expect this to change with 8-cores, either. Just consider this equivalent to VMware dropping its prices every time more dense chips come out. =)

By: Mike DiPetrillo

Mike DiPetrillo — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 23:14:23 +0000

Best place to go for information on this is here: http://www.vmware.com/download/eula/multicore.html. Notice the last question in the FAQ. Also notice that the change to support hexacore licenses was on September 15, 2008 – right around the time hexacore was getting ready to ship.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 15:36:00 +0000

Depends how long it took them to revise this when Dunnington came along!