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edisoninfo
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Guest shows dropped packets but nic does not

I have a quad port gig nic in the host and vcenter shows zero dropped xmit / rcv packets. But in vcenter when viewing each of the guests, I am seeing some dropped receive packets. So far xmit packets in each guest is zero. How do I track this down? Each guest is using the vmxnet3 driver in Windows 2008 R2 Standard Server.

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FredPeterson
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So to reword:

Host vmnic graph sees no dropped packets

Guest vmnic graph sees dropped packets

What does the operating system of the guest say?  Have you tried to track that?

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edisoninfo
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The guests are all Windows 2008 R2 Server Standard. Where do I see that?

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