Greetings,
Apologies for the delay in response. I had verified this setup by launching RHEL 7.6 VM and faced the similar issue. Then I tried enabling the accelerated networking on the VM which in turn enabled Ethernet controller metric.
Screenshot for ubuntu:
Screenshot for RHEL 7.6:
As of now these are the specific VM sizes that support accelerated networking.
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