


If you use the licensing model with up to 32 cores, you can assign a vSphere license for 10 32-core CPUs to any of the following combinations of hosts: If you attempt to assign a license that has insufficient capacity or does not support the features that the host uses, the license assignment fails. For example, if the host is associated with a vSphere Distributed Switch, the license that you assign must support the vSphere Distributed Switch feature.

vSphere Desktop that is intended for VDI environments is licensed on per virtual machine basis. When you assign a vSphere license to a host, the amount of capacity consumed is determined by the number of physical CPUs on the host and the number of cores in each physical CPU. If а CPU has more than 32 cores, you need additional CPU licenses. Starting with vSphere 7.0, one CPU license covers one CPU with up to 32 cores. Each vSphere license has a certain capacity that you can use to license multiple physical CPUs on ESXi hosts. ESXi hosts are licensed with vSphere licenses.
