1. NIC driver and firmware on the host. Vendor driver, not the inbox Microsoft one. 285 alongside queue/filter operations frequently points to driver-firmware incompatibility with the Hyper-V stack , and even if 285 itself is cosmetic, a flaky driver causes the real pauses too.
2.
RSC on the vSwitch. Server 2022 enables software RSC on the vSwitch by default and it has known issues with some workloads. Test: Set-VMSwitch -Name
switch -EnableSoftwareRsc $false. No reboot needed.
3.
Teaming type. If the vSwitch sits on an old LBFO team rather than SET, that’s unsupported on 2022 and causes exactly this kind of intermittent flap. Verify with Get-VMSwitchTeam.
4.
Host power plan and BIOS C-states. High Performance plan, disable deep C-states. DPC latency from power transitions shows up as NDIS timeouts.