If your Device Manager shows multiple processors, first check the model of processors in your computer. Many modern processors are built-in with numerous Cores and Threads. For instance, if your PC ...

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Until now I've never really had enough cores in a box to worry too much about allocating multiple vCPU's but now that I have 2x6 core 5600 CPU's in my new vSphere hosts it's something I can consider.