I have a DELL PowerEdge R720 Host running ESXi 5.5 1474528 and it host 3 VM.
I am using vCenter Server 5.5.0 Build 1476327 Essentials accessing it through the vSpere web client
40 logical processors
20 CPU's X2.20 GHz
2 Sockets
10 Cores per socket
ALL my VM's are windows servers X64, hardware version 10
fileserver 4 CPU's
RDS 4 CPU's
Veeam DAS proxy server 1 CPU
I cannot add any additional CPU's to the third server. I can adjust the CPU count on the other two VM's but not the third.
License is
VMware vSphere 5 Essentials Plus (Unlimited cores per CPU)