Found this yesterday: http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2058692
“On a Windows 2012 virtual machine using the default e1000e network adapter and running on an ESXi 5.0 or 5.1 host, you experience these symptoms:
- Data corruption may occur when copying data over the network.
- Data corruption may occur after a network file copy event.”
The E1000e is the default NIC type for Server 2012, though I always use vmxnet3.
I’ve written this PowerCLI / PowerShell script to identify VMs with the E1000e NIC (though it doesn’t check what the OS is):
$ProblemVMs = @{}
$TotalVMs = 0
$Processed = 0
$VMs = Get-VM
foreach($VM in $VMs){$TotalVMs++}
foreach($VM in $VMs){
$VMNics = Get-NetworkAdapter -VM $VM
$Processed++
[int]$PercentComplete = ($Processed/$TotalVMs*100)
Write-Progress -Activity "Checking VM NICs" -Status "Processing $VM" -PercentComplete $PercentComplete
foreach($VMNic in $VMNics){
$VMNicType = $VMNic.ExtensionData.ToString()
$VMNicType = $VMNicType.Replace("VMware.Vim.Virtual","")
if($VMNicType -match "e1000e"){
$ProblemVMs.Add($VM.Name,$VMNicType)
}
}
}
Write-Progress -Activity "Checking VM NICs" -Completed
$ProblemVMs | Format-Table -AutoSize
You’ll obviously need to do a Connect-VIServer first as usual for PowerCLI.
