| Description | This article describes the meaning of 'A SR-IOV VF is unplugged' which can be seen in the logs following an interface leaving the FortiGate. |
| Scope | FortiGate-VM using SR-IOV. |
| Solution |
Sometimes when hosting a FortiGate in Azure or on another platform that takes advantage of SR-IOV, this message may show in the logs. 
Essentially all this message indicates is the SR-IOV device was removed from the VM the FortiGate is running on. SR-IOV is a method to split a single PCIE network card into multiple, virtual network cards. It is common in cloud environments such as Azure. If encountering this message, it is necessary to reach out to the cloud provider to see why this PCIE device was removed from the FortiGate. |
