Network drops occur on the virtual machine, resulting in improved network traffic.

Products

• VMware vSphere ESXi
• VMware vCenter Server

Issue/Introduction

A network drop occurred on a virtual machine (Prometheus), and the network performance improved after the dropped packets were retransmitted.
No vmnic downtime occurred in vSphere, nor were any vNIC downtimes on the virtual machine.

Environment

VMware ESXi

VMware vCenter Server

Resolution

Please contact the guest OS vendor or the vendor of your application.