It will affect anyone who’s upgraded or already using AMD’s 64-core EPYC CPUs. Taken from VMWare …
Update to VMware’s per-CPU Pricing Model
Today we announced an important update to our per-CPU pricing model, reflecting our commitment to continue meeting our customers’ needs in an evolving industry landscape. This new pricing model will give our customers greater choice and allow us to better serve them.
While we will still be using a per-CPU approach, now, for any software offering that we license on a per-CPU basis, we will require one license for up to 32 physical cores. If a CPU has more than 32 cores, additional CPU licenses will be required. A FAQ related to this change is below.
Today’s announcement is a continuation of VMware’s journey to align our product offerings to industry standard pricing models. The change moves VMware closer to the current software industry standard model of core-based pricing. This approach will make it easier for customers to compare software licensing and pricing between VMware (using per-CPU with up to 32 cores) and other vendors (using per core pricing). It also helps us keep our pricing simple and relevant to where the hardware market is going.
32核心限制旨在最大限度地减少客户影响，给出了行业中使用的大多数CPU的当前核心计数。此更改可能对我们目前的绝大多数客户没有影响，因为它们使用了32核阈值或低于32核阈值的基于英特尔和AMD的服务器。对于目前在具有超过32个核心的CPU上部署CPU的少数客户，或者对于在每次CPU中购买超过32个核心的物理服务器，我们正在提供宽限期，在许可度量变化之后提供宽限期在2020年4月2日生效。在2020年4月30日之前，任何购买VMware软件许可证的客户，用于在每个CPU的超过32个COU的物理服务器上部署，将有资格获得额外的免费每CPU许可证来覆盖该服务器上的CPU。
来源：VMware
