hi,
just to clarify,
in the moment a VM is started then ESXi try to assign the cores in the same physical cpu to vcpu in that VM?try to use NUMA?
Look:
Virtual Machine vCPU and vNUMA Rightsizing - Rules of Thumb - VMware VROOM! Blog - VMware Blogs
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