You must license a minimum of 16 cores per physical processor . Even if your CPU has only 8 or 12 cores, you must purchase a 16-core license.
Licensing is now calculated based on CPU cores (with a minimum of 16 cores per processor) rather than per-CPU socket. vsphere kubernetes license
vSphere Kubernetes licensing follows the same metric as traditional vSphere: . You must license a minimum of 16 cores
To enable the or Supervisor Services , you generally need one of the following bundles: VMware vSphere Kubernetes Service vsphere kubernetes license
If you are on an older version of vSphere (6.7 or early 7.0) or haven't migrated to the Broadcom subscription model: