Symptoms
When you try to create or configure external resource pool to use processors from more than one processor group in SQL Server 2019 on Windows, you may encounter the following error:
Msg 10935, Level 16, State 1, Line LineNumber
External resource pool does not allow more than one processor group
Status
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed in the "Applies to" section.
Resolution
This issue is fixed in the following cumulative update for SQL Server:
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More Information
In Windows Server 2012 and earlier, CPU affinity of only one Processor Group is allowed due to limitation in Windows Job Objects. Hence SQL Server External Resource Governance blocked creation of a Resource Pool with multiple Processor Group affinity. In Windows Server 2016 and later, this Job Object limitation is fixed, and SQL Server can now remove this restriction for the same. After applying this cumulative update you can configure external resource pool to use multiple processor groups.
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