An architect is tasked with updating the design of an existing vSphere-based solution for a pharmaceuticals customer. The update will include upgrade to VMware vCenter 8 and VMware vSphere 8 and the creation of a new cluster that will be used for ongoing research projects. The research project that is driving the need for an update includes a number of applications that are latency-sensitive.
The customer has confirmed the following information during the initial workshop:
The customer recently completed a right sizing exercise using VMware Aria Operations that resulted in a number of ESXi hosts becoming available for use.
Each of the VMware ESXi host servers is configured with:
-- 2 x 20-core Intel Xeon CPU sockets
-- 1024 GB RAM divided evenly between sockets
There is no additional budget for purchasing hardware.
After confirming the existing hardware is still listed on the VMware Hardware Compatibility List (HCL), the architect makes the following design decisions with regard to the workload design:
The solution will support a maximum of 20 combined cores and sockets per virtual machine.
The solution will support a maximum of 512 GB RAM per virtual machine.
What should the architect document as justification for these design decisions?