Kb 75080 — Vmware

Report prepared for internal IT use – always verify patches against your current VMware product versions before deployment.

As a vSphere administrator, your job is not to fear the 200% threshold but to understand the network I/O patterns of your environment. Use the tools in this article— esxtop , NIOC settings, physical NIC stats—to investigate each occurrence. vmware kb 75080

This is the most confusing part of KB 75080. If you see "200%," you naturally assume something is using double the available bandwidth. That is technically impossible on a 10GbE NIC. Report prepared for internal IT use – always

In plain English:

ESXi 6.0 is out of general support; patches are available only for customers with Extended Support. This is the most confusing part of KB 75080

is a VMware Knowledge Base article titled: "Warning message: Network I/O heavy. Observed 200% threshold cross."

In most well-architected environments, is a nudge, not a crisis. But for those rare cases where it points to a genuine bandwidth constraint, this knowledge base article—and your newfound deep understanding—will be the difference between a quick fix and a prolonged outage.