What are the free ESXi / 5.1 vsphere Hypervisor hardware required / restrictions?
Situation: I'm going to update a few web servers where I am currently under the free version of ESXi/vSphere 4.0. When 5.0 was released, I decided to not look at new versions of VMware because of the restriction of vRAM and either run an earlier version or something. I came across a post that says 5.1 license was different and stopped by the page 5.1 and read this http://www.vmware.com/products/datacenter-virtualization/vsphere-hypervisor/requirements.html who actually reads differently.
Questions: am I correct in my understanding of the restrictions for 5.1 are:
1. 32 GB max RAM PHYSICS? (It's a big change from 32GB vRAM).
2. no limit on the number of CPUs or cores? (This is a big change of physical processor 1 up to 6 cores max.)
Thank you!
PS: If the only real limitation is now 32 GB RAM virtual, VMware made a good shot. I'm not the skin to VMware, so I think that physical 32 GB is perfect. There is still only so much you can do in the 32 GB, but there is not the complexities of licensing. The restriction of vRAM was impassable. Server purchase is unnecessarily complicated by restrictions of socket and core. This means that I could buy a standard speed core 8 or 10 cheaper XEON or use an older multiprocessor machine instead of an expensive high-frequency 6 core with hyperthreading.
1. 32 GB max RAM PHYSICS? (It's a big change from 32GB vRAM).
Yes that's right FREE esxi supports maximum 32 GB physical RAM can only
2. no limit on the number of CPUs or cores? (This is a big change of physical processor 1 up to 6 cores max.)
No Yes No limit on physical CPU or cores
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