Douglas is setting up VM instances on a Hyper$-$V server to host some basic web server and legacy software workloads along with some light app testing. He needs to know how many vCPUs to allocate to each VM$.$ The server's motherboard has two CPU sockets, both populated with eight$-$core processors, and hyperthreading is enabled. He's decided that the VMs$\text{'}$ workloads can easily handle a $3$:$1$ overcommitment ratio. He plans on creating $15$ VMs at first and eventually increasing to $25$ VMs as he fine$-$tunes the workloads and resource allocations. How many vCPUs should Douglas initially allocate to each VM$?$

a$.1$

b$.6$

c$.32$

d$.96$