When using a Secure Gateway Virtual Appliance (SGVA) with network interfaces disabled from the GUI or CLI, we can see the interfaces going up and down constantly. This increases CPU in the TCPIP engine slightly.
When the NICs of the virtual machine appear as "Connected" in the virtualized environment, even if the NICs are disabled in the Management Console, the interface will try to activate itself and fail to do so, consuming resources unnecessarily.
Disabling the "Connected" status of the virtual machine's unused NICs will stop the interfaces from flapping thus reducing CPU usage in the TCPIP engine.
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