An administrator is unable to configure Receive Side Scaling on the vmnic driver in a Windows 2008 R2 guest. Based on the exhibit, what would need to be modified to enable this option?

Configuring a static MAC address affects NIC identity and DHCP behavior but has no relationship to whether the adapter driver supports RSS functionality.

DirectPath I/O (PCI passthrough) presents a physical NIC directly to the guest and is a separate technology - it is not required to enable RSS on a virtual adapter and would introduce other management trade-offs.

Attaching the vmnic to a different network changes connectivity paths but does not alter the adapter type or its driver capabilities, so RSS support would remain unavailable.

VMXNET3 is VMware's high-performance paravirtualized NIC and its Windows driver includes support for advanced offload features such as Receive Side Scaling. Older adapter types like E1000 or VMXNET2 lack the driver capabilities required to expose RSS configuration options to the guest operating system.