Storage Space 2012 R2 CPU / Memory requirement

Question

How much impact would does CPU core density has with Storage Space 2012 R2?  Given the option of dual socket 5500 series quad core vs dual socket 5600 series hex core for a SMB environment (attach up to maximum of 2 x 24 JBOD), would there be any
significant performance improvement?  Dedup feature would be enable, at least on some virtual disk, along with SSD storage tiering.

Answer 1

How much impact would does CPU core density has with Storage Space 2012 R2?  Given the option of dual socket 5500 series quad core vs dual socket 5600 series hex core for a SMB environment (attach up to maximum of 2 x 24 JBOD), would there
be any significant performance improvement?  Dedup feature would be enable, at least on some virtual disk, along with SSD storage tiering.
Try running Performance Monitor on a Scale-Out File Server and you'll see CPU and memory usage (unless CSV cache is enabled) is pretty sparse. Dedupe does not matter at all as optimization process kicks in only when there's no I/O (CPU is not used for anything
either way).
P.S. That's one of the reasons why I personally don't buy approach of scaling CPU (Hyper-V) and storage (SoFS) layers separately from each other. 
StarWind Virtual SAN clusters Hyper-V without SAS, Fibre Channel, SMB 3.0 or iSCSI, uses Ethernet to mirror internally mounted SATA disks between hosts.