6 core processors yield licensing questions

Hi folks! So now with 6 core processors readily available for servers, the questions about VMware and multi-core licensing are starting to crop up again.

Generally you license based on a certain amount of cores, and if you exceed that, you buy a license to upgrade you to more cores. However you cannot split cores in a license across multiple processors.

6 core processors are great for virtualization, and that coupled with the ability to put large amount of memory in servers these days will make for some very powerful virtual environments.

You can read more about VMware’s multi-core licensing policy here.

-RP