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Michael_Dieter
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10 years ago

Source of ESX PacketsDroppedRx ?

I've recently discovered a few ESX hosts (ESXi 5.5.0) in order to evaluate whether or not to discover and monitor our entire ESX environment.  Since day 1, both have been in yellow error condition ...
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Michael_Dieter
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10 years ago

I forgot to post that I discovered this appears to be a known issue for multiple ESX releases; one that is only cosmetic.  
Its interesting that a patch containing the fix was documented as of October 2015 for multiple pre-6.0 ESX releases, but while there have been 4 ESX updates to 6.0 since that time (including 3 so far in 2016) not one of them has included a fix.

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