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NCSE-CORE · Question #139

A customer plans to migrate a business critical,highly tranactional SQL Server database to Nutanix Currently the databases is running on a physical server with 256GB of RAM and 12CPU cores at > 80%…

The correct answer is D. Intel E5 2667v4 ( 8 cores each @ 3.2GHZ, 16 Cores total). See the full explanation below for the reasoning.

Question

A customer plans to migrate a business critical,highly tranactional SQL Server database to Nutanix Currently the databases is running on a physical server with 256GB of RAM and 12CPU cores at > 80% utilization To run the VM on a single NUMA node, which processor configuration should the SE recommend for this workload?

Options

  • AIntel E5 2680v4 (14 cores each @ 2.4GHZ, 28 Cores total)
  • BIntel E5 2620v4 ( 8 cores each @ 2.1GHZ, 16 Cores total)
  • CIntel E5 2643v4 ( 6 cores each @ 3.4GHZ, 12 Cores total)
  • DIntel E5 2667v4 ( 8 cores each @ 3.2GHZ, 16 Cores total)

How the community answered

(50 responses)
  • A
    16% (8)
  • B
    8% (4)
  • C
    4% (2)
  • D
    72% (36)

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