topic Re: PA-VM on ESXi 8.0.2 'interface configured but down' in VM-Series in the Private Cloud

PA-VM on ESXi 8.0.2 'interface configured but down'

AndreaConsadori — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 14:50:12 GMT

I'm grateful to the person who wrote this article, and I'm sharing it here so that others don't go crazy like I did.

PA-VM on ESXi 'interface configured but down' - Red9

By default DPDK is enabled on VM-Series firewalls as stated below. If the VM-Series firewall detects an unsupported driver, the firewall reverts to PacketMMap mode.

TLDR: set system setting dpdk-pkt-io off

Re: PA-VM on ESXi 8.0.2 'interface configured but down'

kiwi — Tue, 25 Mar 2025 09:37:17 GMT

Thanks for sharing !

Re: PA-VM on ESXi 8.0.2 'interface configured but down'

mustafaa085 — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 21:01:50 GMT

Hi, I'm grateful to you for sharing this. I was stuck at the same problem for PA-VM. This solved the problem now all the interfaces showing UP.

Thank you !!