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Hyper-V: VMQ should be enabled on VMQ-capable physical network adapters bound to an external virtual switch

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Operating System

Windows Server 2012

Product/Feature

Hyper-V

Severity

Category

Note: The following sections provide details about the specific issue. Italics indicates UI text that appears in the Best Practices Analyzer tool for the specific issue.

Issue

The following network adapters are capable of virtual machine queue (VMQ) but the capability is disabled.

Impact

Windows is unable to take full advantage of available hardware offloads on the following network adapters: \n{0}

Resolution

Enable VMQ using the Enable-NetAdapterVmq Windows PowerShell cmdlet or using the Advanced Properties user interface for the network adapter.

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