Windows 2003 & 2008 vCPU compatibility

Hi guys,.
I use the vSphere Enterprise license
I received some comments std VMs Windows 2003 and windows 2008 std, I turn vCPUs to 8 for these guest virtual machines
I wonder is Windows 2003 & 2008 supports 8 vCPUs or no, I've read somewhere Windows 2003 supports maximum of 4 processors of material, but I couldn't find the vCPU compatibility matrix
your help will be much appreciated
Thank you
Kind regards
Chan

For this and for licensing reasons, VMware has introduced virtual vCPUs multi-core with vSphere 4.1. You can assign the number of vCPUs you need, and then set the way they are presented to the guest OS.

With vSphere 4.1, you must configure it as explained http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1010184, vSphere 5 provides this setting in the GUI.

To find out how many "physical" processors are supported by see for example http://support.microsoft.com/kb/888732/en-us or http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms143760.aspx Windows

André

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