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Ensure that Accelerated Networking feature is enabled for your Azure virtual machines (VMs) in order to provide low latency and high throughput for the network interfaces (NICs) attached to the VMs. Accelerated networking enables single root input/output virtualization (SR-IOV) for virtual machines, vastly improving its networking performance. This high-performance pathway bypasses the host from the datapath, reducing latency, jitter and CPU utilization, so it can be used with the most demanding network workloads that can be installed on the supported VM types.

Risk Level

Medium

Address

Security

Compliance Standards

CBP

Triage and Remediation

Remediation

To remediate the misconfiguration “Enable Accelerated Networking for Virtual Machines” in Azure using the Azure console, follow these steps:

  1. Log in to the Azure portal.
  2. Navigate to the Virtual Machine that needs to be configured.
  3. Click on the “Networking” option in the left-hand menu.
  4. Click on the “Enable” button next to “Accelerated Networking.”
  5. Choose the appropriate network interface and click “Save.”

Once you have completed these steps, the Accelerated Networking feature will be enabled for the virtual machine.