After running monthly capacity reports on private cloud hosts, an engineer decides the CPU overcommitment ratio on the cluster is affecting performance on the VMs. If the engineer is trying to minimiz

Increasing the socket count on cloud hosts involves purchasing new physical CPUs, which directly increases hardware costs, contrary to minimizing costs.

Ballooning is a memory management technique used to reclaim unused RAM from VMs, not a method for addressing CPU overcommitment.

CPU overcommitment causes performance issues when too many virtual CPUs are allocated relative to physical cores. Decreasing the core count on individual VMs that are provisioned with more CPU than they actively use will reduce the overall overcommitment ratio, improve performance for all VMs, and does not incur additional hardware costs, thus minimizing expenses.

Deploying more VMs to each host would further exacerbate CPU overcommitment, worsening performance rather than improving it.