VMware Infrastructure licensing available for 1 CPU servers
April 2nd, 2008 | 
Author: According to the America VMware VIP Partner Newsletter – April 2008 email I just received, ESX 3.5 can be installed on single processor servers. From the email:
“Effective immediately, customers may install VMware ESX and VI licenses on single processor, physical hosts that are included on our Hardware Compatibility List (HCL). This includes servers with two sockets that are populated with a single processor. Each processor may contain up to four cores. Please note that licenses of VMware ESX and VI are still sold in minimum increments of two processors. With this announcement, VMware is clarifying that a two processor license grant may now be split and used on two, single processor, physical hosts.”
More information can also be found
on the VMware Single Processor Licensing Policy page:
“In order to install licenses in single processor increments, a customer must use the Centralized License Server model for installing and managing VMware license files, as described in the VMware Installation and Upgrade Guide. When using this licensing model, a single license file is stored on a license server, which manages your entire license pool and makes licenses available to one or more hosts.”
To my knowledge, the VMware HCL does not include any single socket servers. I guess this is licensing for only populating one socket of a two socket server?
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