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While Intel's Xeon CPUs still power the majority of servers, the most expensive machines now use AMD's EPYC processors. The title of the article is AMD Outsells Intel in the datacenter space. The article says that "Intel still powers the majority of servers" but that "the most expensive...

I have the second gen PMem/Ice Lake in an ESXi host running SQL VMs. For us, the PMem reduces cost by requiring less RAM in a system. You essentially are using PMem for over-provisioning RAM instead of relying on swap. That said in our testing of 1:2 RAM:PMem ratios, the DBAs did not report...