Yes each VM has a single vCPU.
Regarding your (appreciated) link, the limitation that applies is 25 vCPU per core (* 12 Physical Cores not counting HyperThreading == 300).
Is this a best-practice limit or a hard-coded limitation that cannot be lifted? In v4 there was a setting...
I am running into issues with testing in our lab -- ESX 5.0 states there is a maximum of 300 powered on VM's per host.
Using vCloud director, I am trying to spin up 1000+ very light weight VM's in order to evaluate some network tools. Each VM is using 128MB of memory and 1GB vmdks, while this...