Same here. We had previously enabled for specific scenarios (Exchange DAG replication) but didn't realize it was a best practice. "Fortunately" we're behind on VMware Tools versioning do we're not currently impacted.
Procrastination FTW! - Sean > On Mar 30, 2017, at 10:09 AM, Webster <[email protected]> wrote: > > I don't install them but recently I have been building a lot of servers and > templates on Nutanix. With RSS enabled, the servers scream with network > throughput. > > I built a 2008 R2 server from the original RTM ISO, installed all Windows > Updates, optimized and ran cleanmgr and the server was a template - all in > less than 3 hours. I am sure part of it is the Nutanix hardware and the > Nutanix optimized infrastructure but enabling RSS made a huge difference in > performance. It also didn't hurt they had 1 GB Internet pipe to get all those > hundreds of updates. > > > Webster > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Jason Posner > Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2017 12:03 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] Anyone see this VMware announcement and deal with it? > > Come to find out we've not been utilizing RSS on our 2012r2 (all deployed > with VMXNet3 by default). And nobody really knew about it when I asked. The > few 2008 servers I've checked have it turned on, which is default. This will > be something I revisit once VMware fixes the current issue. Look forward to > testing on a few servers to see if there's a noticeable difference. > > Jason Posner > Systems Administrator > Weis Markets, Inc > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Charles F Sullivan > Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2017 9:26 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] Anyone see this VMware announcement and deal with it? > > That's okay, got it anyway. Both points are very relevant to me and I've > passed on the information about the packet loss to the rest of my group, as I > didn't know about this until you posted here. > > If I check a Windows 2012 VM that is current with its Tools on a 5.5 host, > it's at the latest unaffected version. We are just adding 6.0 hosts and I > suspect that if I were to upgrade any VMs on those hosts, they would be at an > affected version, so I've let everyone know to hold off until there is a > patch. > > Thanks again for the information. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Kurt Buff > Sent: Monday, March 27, 2017 5:41 PM > To: ntsysadm <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Anyone see this VMware announcement and deal with it? > > Dang it... > > I forgot to put in the point of the post: Win2012 and Win2012R2 machines with > current-ish VMware tools and RSS enabled can experience some packet loss. > Current recommendation until VMware fixes the VMWare Tools is to older > version. > > Yuck. > > Kurt > >> On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 1:30 PM, Kurt Buff <[email protected]> wrote: >> The comments section is very interesting, including the author stating >> that best practice is to turn on RSS in multi-cpu machines with >> VMXNet3 adapters >> https://blogs.vmware.com/apps/2017/03/rush-post-vmware-tools-rss-incom >> patibility-issues.html >> >> > >
