Licensing: vSphere 5 Enterprise and 8 way VMs

In my experience, more and more customers are asking for multiway VMs with more than 4 vCPUs. For my company, an IT service provider, this is a little problematic as most of our licenses are vSphere Enterprise - not Enterprise Plus.

With vSphere 5, 8 way VMs are now possible both in the Standard edition and Enterprise edition. For up to 32 way VMs, the Enterprise Plus license is required.

See link for more info, page 6.