I guess I am a little confused. If number of virtual sockets or number of cores per socket do not matter then why have it in there. I understand for licensing but there has to be some correlation between performance right. I made virtual sockets 4 and cores 2 vs. 1 and 8 perspectively.
I ran some tests for processor load and 1 and 8 far out performed the other tests
Storage we think is a small issue that can be corrected. We needed space as much as anything and money was a factor. We have two RAID arrays in BIOS of the server. All storage is local. RAID 1 for ESXI and RAID 5 for OS\Data. The RAID 5 volume has 7 disks. I realize this may not be a perfect setup but money dictated this.
Memory is not overcommitted. The Server has 64GB and each machine is running 16.
We are on a single Vswitch with all 4 NICS setup for failover but not lagging.
What is %ready.
I am learning but still pretty novice on some of this. THanks,
Brad