Having an issue with pretty much all of our new HPE Synergy hosts dropping packets. When I look at the nic stats I see "Receive over error" counts that match the packets dropped count. I'm struggling to find a clear explanation of what exactly that metric is though. Anyone have an idea?
esxcli network nic stats get -n vmnic3
NIC statistics for vmnic3
Packets received: 21262710237
Packets sent: 6187578237
Bytes received: 30679697006681
Bytes sent: 9342694768474
Receive packets dropped: 4118227
Transmit packets dropped: 0
Multicast packets received: 229098747
Broadcast packets received: 820989027
Multicast packets sent: 253765
Broadcast packets sent: 6863267
Total receive errors: 0
Receive length errors: 0
Receive over errors: 4118227