An administrator determines that traffic shaping does not appear to be working on Production, a virtual machine port group on vSwitch1. Traffic shaping is working on all other port groups on the switc

In vSphere, traffic shaping settings such as Average Bandwidth, Peak Bandwidth, and Burst Size are defined independently of whether the feature is active. The Status checkbox must be explicitly enabled for the configured values to take effect on the port group. Because all other port groups on vSwitch1 are working, the misconfiguration is isolated to this disabled Status setting on the Production port group.

Adjusting Average Bandwidth relative to Peak Bandwidth is a tuning consideration, not a fix for traffic shaping being entirely inactive due to a disabled Status.

Reducing Burst Size is a bandwidth policy tuning step and does not address the root cause of traffic shaping being switched off.

Security exceptions on the Security tab govern MAC address changes, forged transmits, and promiscuous mode - they have no relationship to traffic shaping functionality.