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We have an exisiting vmware esxi environment that has 3 hosts with distributed switches configured.   Currently, each esxi host has 4 links (all trunks) going to the physical uplink switch.   We've installed a VM palo series firewall and have established managment connectivity to it via eth1/0 with no issues.    Now we are configuring sub interfaces on the vm palo and will point the vm's to it as their gateways.  I think this part is working.    Where our issue is happening is on the uplink from the vm palo to the physical switch.  I'm confused how this works as all the uplinks are trunks and I need to have the connection from the physical switch to the palo vm as a L3 link.   Could someone break this down for me?  Does the questione even make sense?   More info I have a SVI on the physical Cisco switch. 10.1.1.1/24 I configured eth1/1 on the vm palo as a L3 link as 10.1.1.2/24   I have sub interfaces 10.1.80.1/24 (vlan 80) and 10.1.90.1/24 (vlan90) created off of eth1/2 of the VM Palo and they will be gateways for the virtual machines.  The palo virtual router is set with a default router of 10.1.1.1 to the physical switch.   Honestly without any routing, I would think that I should be able to ping from the physical switch to the 10.1.1.2 as it should be directly connected but that's not working even with the management profile applied.     So confused!       Thanks in advance!!  ... View more