vRSS In Action...

In Windows Server 2012 R2, Microsoft works to improve networking workloads inside the Virtual Machine, because back in Windows Server 2012 we had a bottleneck inside the Host limited to one Core and bottleneck inside the VM again limited to one Core, so we need to expand that out and have a Virtual Machine being able to use multiple Cores in the host and inside the VM, therefore Microsoft introduced a new feature in Windows Server 2012 R2 called Virtual Receive Side Scaling (vRSS). With vRSS, we are now able to turn RSS On inside the VM expanding to multiple Cores and that used just like would be in the physical Host so you can pretend that the VM as the physical Host, and as soon as you turn on RSS inside the VM, you automatically get spread inside the Host as well, so they introduced logically VMQ to actually spread from 1 Core up to 16 Cores. Watch and have fun :)