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So far we got 300 virtual &nbsp;servers running on 8 vmware esx servers (organized in a cluster) , each of these servers has 2 cpus.<br />
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So far we got 300 virtual  servers running on 8 vmware esx servers (organized in a cluster) , each of these servers has 2 cpus.



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Hi, <br />
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I'm currently planning the installation of a VMware ESXi host, running 3 guest OS, (Oracle distro, fedora, windows server 2008). <br />
each Guest OS must be assigned 2 vcpu (requested by the application's vendor)<br />
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am I looking at a 6 CPU server, and subsequently VMware Vsphere standard? (which support more than 2 cpu)<br />
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thanks in advance :)<br />
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Hi, 

I'm currently planning the installation of a VMware ESXi host, running 3 guest OS, (Oracle distro, fedora, windows server 2008). 
each Guest OS must be assigned 2 vcpu (requested by the application's vendor)

am I looking at a 6 CPU server, and subsequently VMware Vsphere standard? (which support more than 2 cpu)

thanks in advance :)



Does each VMware vcpu need a physical counterpart?

VMware, a software company founded in 1998,  was one of the first commercially successful companies to offer x86 virtualization. The storage company EMC purchased VMware in 1994. Dell Technologies acquired EMC in 2016. VMware’s parent company is now Dell Technologies.

VMware has many software products that run on desktops, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, which allows the virtualizing of the x86 architecture.  Its enterprise software hypervisor for servers, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on the server hardware and does not require an additional underlying operating system.