I read through search results in the forum to try to find an answer before posting, but I still don't feel clear on this.In short, we want to place multiple Standard Edition instances on a server (non-virtualized) with more than 16 CPU cores which is running Windows Server 2008 Enterprise.I understand that each instance is limited to using 16 cores, but does that mean that all of the instances combined will still only access CPU0-CPU15, and CPU16+ will be completely unused by any SQL Server instance?I would like to avoid using Processor Affinity, as I am not a real DBA and am not confident in my ability (yet) to recognize when a misconfiguration is causing a problem. I'm just hoping that the load will be spread across all CPUs automatically, though each instance will only use 16 each.
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