A new research: VMware vSphere CPU topology effects on VDI performance: NUMA vNUMA and CPU scheduling by @Edwin de Bruin https://www.go-euc.com/vmware-vsphere-cpu-topology-effects-on-vdi-performance-numa-vnuma-and-cpu-scheduling/

It's interesting to see that there's really not much benefit to picking anything other than auto these days

Interesting to see this detailed. I'd heard for years thsr post skylake CPUs have built in code to deal with the NUMA core issues from the past. Your findings align with that statement