VMware Tools and Windows RSS Issues
Last Thursday, VMware distributed a rush post regarding an issue with Windows Server and VMware Tools. The issue pertains to packets being dropped on virtual machines running Windows as the guest OS and VMware Tools versions 9.10.0 through 10.1.5. For reference, 9.10.0 through 10.1.5 were packaged with ESXi 6.0 and 6.5, respectively. The increased rate of dropped packets stems from a malfunction in Windows Receive Side Scaling (RSS) on Windows 2012 and later guests. RSS normally works to distribute network processing…