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No, this is not correct.<br />
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It depends on the license you acquire.<br />
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But the FREE version is limited to Six Cores.
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No, this is not correct.

It depends on the license you acquire.

But the FREE version is limited to Six Cores.

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if you have 2 (dual) processors, with 6 cores, the Free license, and Essentials License will work with all Six Cores.
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if you have 2 (dual) processors, with 6 cores, the Free license, and Essentials License will work with all Six Cores.

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see Multi Core Policy<br />
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<a href="http://www.vmware.com/download/eula/multicore.html" rel="ugc nofollow">http://www.vmware.com/download/eula/multicore.html</a>
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see Multi Core Policy

http://www.vmware.com/download/eula/multicore.html [http://www.vmware.com/download/eula/multicore.html]

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Sorry it was my wording. &nbsp;Yes, I want to use the free version of ESXi and this is limited to 1 processor with 6 cores. &nbsp;If my server has two processors, I understand that VMWARE will just not recognise the second?
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Sorry it was my wording.  Yes, I want to use the free version of ESXi and this is limited to 1 processor with 6 cores.  If my server has two processors, I understand that VMWARE will just not recognise the second?

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VMware ESXi will recognise and use both processors and all cores.
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VMware ESXi will recognise and use both processors and all cores.

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see the following License Display<br />
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&nbsp;<a href="https://filedb.experts-exchange.com/incoming/2011/03_w14/438023/ESXi-License.jpg" target="_blank" title="Free ESXi License (26 KB)"><img alt="Free ESXi License" class="file-block lazyload" style="max-width: 440px;" data-src="https://filedb.experts-exchange.com/incoming/2011/03_w14/438023/ESXi-License.jpg" /></a>
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see the following License Display

 Free ESXi Licensehttps://filedb.experts-exchange.com/incoming/2011/03_w14/438023/ESXi-License.jpg

ESXi-License.jpg

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no problems, come back again. Good Luck.
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I understand that VMware ESXi is limited to 1 processor with 6 cores. &nbsp;Am i then right to understand that if i purchase a server with 2 processors each having 6 cores each, VMware will only recognise one of the processors. &nbsp;It will not cause any problems?
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I understand that VMware ESXi is limited to 1 processor with 6 cores.  Am i then right to understand that if i purchase a server with 2 processors each having 6 cores each, VMware will only recognise one of the processors.  It will not cause any problems?

VMWARE ESXi hardware

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.