Good day, Please Advise.
1. SQL 2014 Architecture: VMWare, OS Windows 2012, SQL Enterprise 2014, 2 Sockets*8 Processors=16 CPU, 64GB RAM
The server performs fine doing sequential activity but Parallelism it struggles. Initially we had the MAXDOP options set but we experience bad performance hence why I am thinking of adding more CPU & RAM
2. what can I do from a hardware perspective to increase performance (sql2016 next year)
I compared the CPU to 2 servers below, On bottom Left is Main Server compared to bottom right. 4 sockets has better performance and has increased maximum memory allocated.
Kindly advise by adding cpu like image on bottom right with increased maximum memory setting would increase performance