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Hi Chaps,<br />
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I have a Intel Xeon E5-2620 @2Ghz<br />
I want to run two VM on ESXI but not sure of the best config.<br />
Essentially, I want the best config for Exchange 2013 and a 2012 Domain Controller.<br />
Your thoughts and experience would be appreciated as I want to get best performance and ideally let ESXI handle the hard work.<br />
Once I have done this I would like to look at the NICS but that question can come after :)<br />
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Anyone able to advise what they suggest for this type of processor?
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Hi Chaps,

I have a Intel Xeon E5-2620 @2Ghz
I want to run two VM on ESXI but not sure of the best config.
Essentially, I want the best config for Exchange 2013 and a 2012 Domain Controller.
Your thoughts and experience would be appreciated as I want to get best performance and ideally let ESXI handle the hard work.
Once I have done this I would like to look at the NICS but that question can come after :)

Anyone able to advise what they suggest for this type of processor?

Cores, Virtual Sockets and best setup for server

VMware, a software company founded in 1998,  was one of the first commercially successful companies to offer x86 virtualization. The storage company EMC purchased VMware in 1994. Dell Technologies acquired EMC in 2016. VMware’s parent company is now Dell Technologies.

VMware has many software products that run on desktops, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, which allows the virtualizing of the x86 architecture.  Its enterprise software hypervisor for servers, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on the server hardware and does not require an additional underlying operating system.