Usman Asar

Clearly intel with 2 CPU's (3 generations older) wont be equal to one with AMD Epyc which is latest of the CPU line up.

BUT

Intel's are monolithic die CPU's, while AMD is chiplet based design, meaning there are 4 chiplets of 6-core CCX's spread across die and 7402 model shows its second generation so I/O die in right on the chip, making it way superior to Epyc's first generation, but again being a chiplets spread across CPU, the software will see it as a multi CPU system, so you'll be optimizing database to make use of NUMA nodes, you can however test with AMD's allocating Processor affinity to Database, Application server and web server, and can test NUMA configuration for database later on as I heard second generation AMD's dont need NUMA due to I/O die right on CPU.

btw where are you getting these quotes from? just curios who is offering second gen AMD Epyc.

Emma, this is confusing part, as Hyper-V is Microsoft's hypervisor, so you are running Windows server beneath?

two server configuration suited in era of 8-core CPU servers (Intel domination era), now you get 128 threads on single CPU, server hardware is of higher quality anyway to just die without a good reason, and on tops servers have double redundancy at minimal.

Where you mentioned database to be faster on single server, that again depends on CPU configuration, single CPU = yes, multiple CPU's = require NUMA configuration.

depending on your O/S, you can as well run a hypervisor to setup BBB using same hardware (I mentioned O/S as I have idea on Windows Server but not on Linux).

You do not create groups of teachers, but allocate subjects to teachers, while in class you can create groups of students per course.

where you quoted English 1, add section to course headers, like English - 1 (Section A), you can allocate individual teachers and students to each course based on their relevance to that section.