Prelude (if you just want the “how-to” scroll down) Boy oh boy. As my lab grows and grows I was receiving “Fully-automated DRS-enabled cluster has CPU contention” messages from vROPS every night and occasionally during the day. Of course for a lab it doesn’t matter much, but I do have some workloads that I care about behind NSX-T which can be touchy with contention and can yield weird results. I am running a Dell R620 and a Supermicro 24-bay with a X9DRi-LN4F+ motherboard. I was using dual E5-2680’s in each system which provided 8 cores and 16 threads per socket. A...