VM Sizing with higher server configuration for High end installation of CMX

[Muhammed Adnan]

Hello Experts,

It is understood the minimum server requirement of High end installation of CMX is 20vCPUs & 64 GB Ram.

However there’s a customer deployment wherein the deployed CMX instance is likely to run on maximum capacity.

Will increasing the CPUs beyond 20 vCPUs to about 24 vCPUs or higher will help us in any way? Or The extra CPUs that we consider won’t add to any benefit at all?

The CPU we would be using is HX-CPU-8180 (2.4 GHz 8180 / 205 W 28C/38.50 MB Cache / DDR4 2666 MHZ)

[patoberli]

As far as I remember, you can always increase the core count and reboot the CMX. So I would start with 20 and if it's not enough, increase.
Please be aware about VMware Co-Stopping troubles if you provide to many CPU cores to a VM: https://www.opvizor.com/vmware-cpu-co-stop-and-sql-server-performance