Microsoft is changing its license model on Windows OS from socket to core. In Microsoft mind the fair conversion is 1 socket => 8 cores. This leaves us in a predicament going forward with regards to CPU model in new hosts.
Normally I would buy (dual CPU) E5-2690v4 (2.6GHz/14-core). A god balance between speed and cores but this will increase the license cost going forward.
We could go for the E5-2667v4 (3.2GHz/8-core) instead.
Our typical VM is 1-4 vCPU, very few 8 and none above. Our gold is to run as many VM on a host without introducing unreasonable CPU starvation.The VMs are 60% Remote Desktop Servers (2-8 vCPU), 20% SQL (1-4 vCPU) and general file/infrastructure servers (1-2vCPU).
I know it’s difficult to predict but would going for the E5-2667v4 significantly decrease the VM count on a host.
Thanks