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Replicating vSwitch NIC status to a NGFW VM (ESXi)

Josh_Levine — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 20:57:31 GMT

Greetings all,

I wanted to see if anyone has successfully replicated the status of a host NIC attached to a vSwitch to a Palo Alto NGFW VM in ESXi 8?

Right now, all ports always remain up because the virtual switch they are attached to remain up. It seems like this should be a trivial configuration, but I can't figure it out for the life of me.

Re: Replicating vSwitch NIC status to a NGFW VM (ESXi)

Josh_Levine — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 19:22:18 GMT

Thanks for the response, Lisa!

I actually just managed to get it working. I think the issue I was running into was due to the specific ESXi compatibility level set on the OVA out of the box. I upgraded the hardware compatibility on the OVA to ESXi 8.0, and now the interface status replicates properly when the NIC is in passthrough mode.