ESXi VM-100 11.1.4.-h7 Interfaces won't Come Up

D.Wilk — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 19:39:49 GMT

I have deployed and (eval) licensed three VM-100 w/ PAN-OS 11.1.4.-h7 on three different ESXi 8.0 servers in my lab environment. Unfortunately, I cannot get any of the VM's ethernet interfaces to come up. I have no issues with the management interfaces via ssh or https. All the ethernet interfaces are configured as layer 3 and are each part of a vSwitch/port group that another VM's virtual NICs are also part of. Using the exact same configuration, but with a PAN-OS 10.0.3 image has no issues and the ethernet interfaces come right up.

PA CLI Output:

admin@fw01> show interface all

total configured hardware interfaces: 4

name id speed/duplex/state mac address
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
ethernet1/1 16 ukn/ukn/down((autoneg)) 00:0c:29:69:44:5f
ethernet1/2 17 ukn/ukn/down((autoneg)) 00:0c:29:69:44:69
ethernet1/3 18 ukn/ukn/down((autoneg)) 00:0c:29:69:44:73
ethernet1/6 21 ukn/ukn/down((autoneg)) ba:db:ad:ba:db:06

aggregation groups: 0

total configured logical interfaces: 4

name id vsys zone forwarding tag address
------------------- ----- ---- ---------------- ------------------------ ------ ------------------
ethernet1/1 16 1 VPN vr:default 0 192.168.1.1/24
ethernet1/2 17 1 Internet vr:default 0 192.168.2.1/24
ethernet1/3 18 1 Mgmt_Srvcs vr:default 0 192.168.3.1/24
ethernet1/6 21 1 N/A 0 N/A

admin@fw01>

VMware Console

IP addresses

Thoughts? Ideas? Thanks!

Re: ESXi VM-100 11.1.4.-h7 Interfaces won't Come Up

JayGolf — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 04:13:45 GMT

Hi @D.Wilk ,

What network adapter type did you set your data interfaces to ?

Re: ESXi VM-100 11.1.4.-h7 Interfaces won't Come Up

D.Wilk — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 18:34:00 GMT

All the network adapters are VMXNET 3 w/ an automatic MAC.

Re: ESXi VM-100 11.1.4.-h7 Interfaces won't Come Up

D.Wilk — Fri, 24 Jan 2025 18:39:14 GMT

Solution: Power off the VM and add the following 2 lines to the .vmx file:

vmxnet3.serialNumberV2 = FALSE
vmxnet3.rev.30 = FALSE

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