With ESXi 5 free, vCPU limit is 32. Does that mean a max of 32 cpus can be assigned to VM guest?
I think you are mixing up the maximum of 32GB physical memory with vCPUs here. Unless I'm mistaken, the free Hypervisor is also limited to 8 vCPUs. Only during evaluation mode (which equals Enterprise Plus) you can assign more than 8 vCPUs to a VM.
André
I just checked again. You are correct ESXi 5 free is limited to 8 vCPUs to a VM. Only in evaluation mode where I had 32 vCPUs.