The Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK) enhances
VM-Series performance by increasing network interface card (NIC)
packet processing speed. On the VM-Series firewall, DPDK is enabled
by default on ESXi.
To take advantage of DPDK, you must use a NIC with one of the
supported DPDK drivers mentioned in DPDK Driver Versions:
If you disable DPDK, the NIC uses PacketMMap instead of DPDK.
You can disable DPDK using the command