XenServer VM NIC inbound traffic - obsolete

Summary

The read (inbound) traffic on a virtual machine’s network card is high.

Causes

Applications running on the virtual machine may cause an intensive network read activity.

Resolutions

Consider the following solutions to reduce the read (inbound) traffic:

• Check whether the read traffic is high for longer periods of time.

• Check whether the read traffic is high on individual or all virtual machine’s network cards.

• Check what applications are running on the virtual machine.

• Check whether you can redirect some of the read traffic to other network cards on the virtual machine.

Additional

High read (inbound) network traffic can be a result of a high read activity of applications running on the virtual machine.

External

For more information, see the “Citrix XenServer Administrator’s Guide”, the section on networking.