Resource Governor Enhancements

SQL Server 2012 provides enhancements to the Resource Governor that enable you to more effectively govern performance, especially for machines with a large number of CPU cores. The enhancements include the following:

Image Support for up to 64 resource pools, an increase from the previous maximum of 20, to better enable partitioning larger machines between more workloads

Image A new CAP_CPU_PERCENT option for resource pools to provide a means of setting a hard-cap limit on CPU resource usage, which can provide greater predictability ...

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