Dropped received/transmitted packets errors

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If you see a high rate of dropped packets reported by ControlUp, check if the issue is mainly with XenServer or Vmware ESXi.
Dropped received packet column

In this example we noticed that it wasn’t only the Horizon VMs but all VMs that reside on the vSphere Cluster had the dropped packets issue.
Dropped received packet column

When we checked the vSphere Performance charts for affected VMs, we saw that it definitely showed a packet loss issue.
vSphere Performance chart with receive packets dropped

With the specific patch installed only on one host (ESX01), packet loss issue is no longer present on this specific host (stress found below is related to high CPU utilization and other metrics).
stress level in console