In SSMS 2008 R2, we currently have "Automaticall set both Processor and IO affinity for all processors" set. Since the servers that SQL is running on are VM servers, is this the recommended affinity settings for SQL Server ? We have other installations where the first 2 of 8 processors (for example) are unchecked, so that they will be available for the VMWare ESX host server. I am not sure how affinity should be set in SQL on VM servers.
Thanks,
Joe Clark