Hi sir, could you clarify this:
At the beginning of the post you said you started with this:

• Two CPU sockets, each with a processor with 12 cores (Intel E5-2680 v3).
• 256 GB memory (16 x 16GB RDIMM)

Then, in the final Test section you were talking about : 

• 2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2680 v3 @ 2.50GHz

2x means 2 sockets and one physical processor? or you finally used 2 physical processors?
Regards
Ivan
PD: I need to buy a server for SAP B1 which will run a Vmware host with 2 VMs (server and Database).
Each VM with 20 vCpu.....and i need to check if we are ok with 1 or 2 physical proccesors.