Good day all,
We are looking at doing a pilot of VMware View 5. Reading the VMware website, they seem to recommend 8-10 desktops per CPU core. Should I include HT as a core or no?
I am limited to which vendors I can buy from, and have to choose a basic configuration for a server (I can not pick my CPU). It is all based on a standing offer so it is not very flexible.
The reason I ask is that I can get the HP DL580 G7, which comes with four x 1.86GHz Six Core Xeon E7530, which has Hyperthreading. My other choice is a HP DL585 G7, which comes with four x 12 core AMD Opteron 6174.
The benchmarks seem to favor the Intel chip, but it has only half the cores of the AMD one. Does that matter or can I include the HT as another core?
Any advice is appreciated!