VMSMP warning event id 28 on 2008 R2 with Hyper-V

I am using a HP ProLiant DL380 G6 with a full install of the 2008 R2 Datacenter, the only role added is Hyper-V. There is 4 integrated NICs on the server, I also added a Quad port adapter. One nic is for the host, the rest is dedicated to virtual machines
(no config on the host OS - apart from disabled Offload). All virtual networks have not checked the box for allowing the host OS to share the adapter, all machined using dynamic MAC-addressing. All Hp agents installed - apart from HP network config utility.
All virtual machines works pretty well, but all of them have short stops in network traffic. One virtual machine is a terminal server (or Remote Desktop Server) serving 10-15 users. All users are pretty annoyed with the fact that the server often stops responding
for a few secs, and then continues as normal. Sometimes the server disconnects the RDP connection and the users have to log in all over again. Another physical server is running Backup Exec - but all backup jobs ends up with a communication error to remote
agents on virtual servers (sometimes also the host has these errors).
The system log is filled with this and simular events:
Port 'SWITCHPORT-SM-6B477375-B522-4704-9998-79103BFE3F34-3-1' was prevented from using MAC address '00-15-5D-0F-30-08' because it is pinned to port '187215F7-4AC9-4ACF-8'.
I have double and triple checked the mac address config, but all virtual machines have unic addresses - and none colliding with any other adresses on the network. The switch in place is a HP ProCurve gb unmanaged 24 port - seems to work OK.
All these warnings in my host's system log seems to to actually log an error - as the VM's loose network connection at the same time as the log is generated.
As most search engines are focusing on the duplicate mac adress problem, I am having a hard time working this out..
Any ideas?

Hmm, I am still not able to get this working correctly.. After enabling mac address spoofing, the messages are no longer warning messages, only informational:
The MAC address '00-15-5D-0F-30-0E' has moved from port 'D5D16391-4A0B-43AF-8D75-9A9DBBF4638C' to port 'D827152D-A4E0-41B6-AA5D-E33963330607'. And it is filling my system log with similar events. Anybody have a clue WHY?
But the short stops in network traffic is still there, all my backup jobs fail. I have tried to set static mac addresses on all virtual nics - I even removed all the virtual network cards from vm's, deleted them from the host and started all over again.
That is - I created new virtual networks and added new nics to each VM. And there is still this problem that I cannot seem to find any solution for.
The funny part is that I have used this setup with several customers using a singlehost-solution without any problems anywhere else. That is using both Hyper-V and VMware.
I am running out of options here....
Anybody?

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I would be interested to know what you thought
I sometimes wonder if users are not trying to use that, or whether forum users run into problems in using it. At one point I wondered whether there was a problem if too much data was included but never actually proved that conjecture.
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table lookup in the error handling proc), and not providing more diagnostic information seems to me to be almost quaint. And in this case Microsoft can dismiss my problems on the grounds it was all on unsupported hardware. Unfortunately, I think they
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