An administrator is creating a new virtual machine using the New Virtual Machine wizard in
custom mode on an ESXi 5.x host with two quad-core CPUs. What would limit the maximum
number of virtual sockets for the virtual machine to 8? (Choose three.)
A.
The ESXi host is configured with a Standard license.
B.
The number of cores per virtual socket is set to 4.
C.
Hyperthreading is disabled on the ESXi host.
D.
Virtual machine hardware version 8 is configured for the VM.
E.
Windows 2008 32-bit is configured as the guest operating system.
Explanation:
It states windows 2008 32bit, no specific version is mentioned. That does not tell us a lot !
VM Machine HW template at 8 is for vSphere 5, thus at its highest.
With a 2 Quad Cores, your VMs can’t spawn above the logicals limit. Here there one does not state HT is enabled, therefore wa assume 2x4cores or 8vCPUs are the max.
Enabling HT (if at all possible) could be an option.
So B+C are both Correct.
https://communities.vmware.com/message/2302537
So Standard editions do seem to limit the Configuration maximums we study for !
Didn’t knew that.
So A is correct as well