Possibly. Adding an additional CPU, may have license cost implications. A node (such as your CM host) can have upto 16 CCUs.   A CCU is the total number of CPU cores / 6. So if the cores are reported across all installed CPUs in a node as 96 or less then no core based variable cost would be incurred. Note:  Generally you take the total cores / memory across the whole cluster as part of the calculation so this provides some flexibility when adding a CPU to a single server. ... View more