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The ESXi Power Policy enables the VMware vSphere administrator to assign a power profile to the virtualized database. The high-performance power policy setting was selected. There are four CPU Power Management Polices that you can select for a virtual machine:
Many databases support critical business functions where performance is an enterprise priority. The CPU Power Management Policy was changed from a default of balanced to high performance to ensure the best performance.