Does vSphere client restrict the number of cores for VMs?

We just installed it on our new server and have found that using the vSphere client we cannot create a virtual machine with more than 32 cores (Our host has 64). Is this normal behaviour? We haven't added our licences yet but the trial version we're on should give us full access to all the features correct?

Solution 1:

64-way guests are only supported with Enterprise Plus licenses. If you install your Ent+ license, you can configure a VM to have 64 vCPUs (though doing that on a 64 core machine is probably not a wonderful idea).

Solution 2:

We're missing the version of the vSphere you're using here. That's very important.

To answer your question, though, all features are enabled during the VMware trial period... (to get you hooked like crack)

I see the 32 vCPU limitation you speak of...

You may need to do this through the vSphere Web Client interface and/or update your VM's virtual hardware version from 8 to vmx-09...

Example below:

vSphere client 32 vCPU limit

vSphere web client interface

The option to create up to 64 vCPUs in the vSphere web client