cpu sockets

I am evaluating installing a Proxmox VE infrastructure (VE cluster + PBS) as a guest in a Nutanix infrastructure. I read some pages in the web explaining what to do from a technical point of view. My question, however, is how should I calculate the number of Physical CPU sockets in order to buy...

I've read everything I can about this and I still don't understand how this works in Proxmox. I have a 2 x E5-2698 v3 Server which has 2 sockets, 16 cores per socket, 2 threads per core. So that's a total of 64 threads, 32 physical cores, 2 physical sockets. Proxmox is showing this like this...

I have proxmox installed on a server that has 2 Xeon x5570s inside of it each one has 4 cores and 8 threads. My question is how should I configure the CPU hardware for my Windows VMs? should I set the CPU configuration of the VMs as 2 sockets and 1 or 2 cores or should I set it as 1 socket and 2...