Ongoing Maintenance
Once you have scalable networking features deployed, you should monitor network throughput and processor utilization on servers to verify that the features remain enabled and are functioning properly. If processor utilization increases or network throughput decreases, the scalable networking features might have been disabled. TCP Chimney Offload and NetDMA, in particular, are incompatible with many common network components and might be automatically disabled as an unwanted side effect of applying updates or configuration changes.
After you verify that scalable networking features provide you with performance benefits and work properly in your environment, you should monitor load on your servers to identify other servers that ...
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