Azure VM Accelerated Networking Opportunity
Network traffic is processed by the host rather than the network card, so throughput is lower and latency higher than the VM size allows for.
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Found, explained, handed over.
What we would change and why, with no savings claim and no policy behind it.
Detect
ZopNight checks this automatically across Azure, with read-only access to the account.
Explain
Every finding says exactly what to change: Enable accelerated networking on VM.
Fix
The finding opens with the fix already written out, step by step, so it is one ticket, not an investigation.
- Applies to
- Virtual Machines on Azure
- The fix, by hand
- Confirm the VM SKU + OS image supports Accelerated Networking (most modern Dv3+/Ev3+ SKUs do; the docs matrix is authoritative).
- Stop (deallocate) the resource.
- VM → Networking → click the attached NIC → Edit accelerated networking → Enabled. (There is no single Enable toggle on the VM Networking blade itself; it lives on the NIC.) CLI equivalent:
az network nic update -g ‹rg› -n ‹nic› --accelerated-networking true. - Repeat for every NIC attached to the VM.
- Start the VM and validate throughput / latency in Monitor → Metrics or a synthetic iperf3 run.
These are the steps the finding carries in the product.
- Category
- Performance. A measured bottleneck worth clearing: throttled operations, undersized tiers, a workload near its limit.
- Where it appears
- The Advisory tab of Recommendations, with every affected resource listed.
- Rule ID
RC-263- Full reference
Related checks
See the performance findings in your account.
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