I would like to setup support for 16 CPU cores but the hardware version of the image only supports 8. Any reason not to upgrade to the latest hardware version?
I'm not finding any docs that talk about VM Hardware version after a quick search. You always have the option of snap-shotting your LEM, upgrading, and then seeing if there are any issues.
However, the LEM is a lot more memory heavy than CPU heavy. Why do you think you need a 16 CPU setup for LEM?
Its a dedicated system with one VM, no reason not to. Also noticed via TOP when running reports CPU jumps, plus we are already at 5M events per day with a few burst to 12M and just getting started will be 20x this soon, and this is after reducing the noise via policy.