Which two options would alleviate the observed performance problem for Email-Prod?

Users are reporting CPU related performance problems on the virtual machine Email-Prod throughout the day.
The resource settings for the VM and the ESXi host the VM is running on are shown below:
VM:
Email-Prod
vCPUs: 4
Memory: 96GB
ESXi host:
CPU: 2 x 8 Core Processors
Memory: 128GB
NUMA architecturE. 2 Nodes
Which two options would alleviate the observed performance problem for Email-Prod? (Choose two.)

Users are reporting CPU related performance problems on the virtual machine Email-Prod throughout the day.
The resource settings for the VM and the ESXi host the VM is running on are shown below:
VM:
Email-Prod
vCPUs: 4
Memory: 96GB
ESXi host:
CPU: 2 x 8 Core Processors
Memory: 128GB
NUMA architecturE. 2 Nodes
Which two options would alleviate the observed performance problem for Email-Prod? (Choose two.)

A.
Enable the advanced parameter Numa.PageMigEnable.

B.
Enable the advanced parameter Numa.AutoMemAffinity.

C.
Enable CPU affinity to separate 2 vCPUs for each NUMA node.

D.
Enable CPU affinity to bind all vCPUs to one NUMA node.

Explanation:
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andy75

andy75

Had the VM had 64GB RAM or less, the preferred design would be ‘D’. But because it has 96GB, the memory spans both NUMA nodes, thus ‘C’.