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Regarding the migration from HDD to SSD for PA-VM running in the Azure environment

Otsuka — Mon, 11 May 2026 06:55:06 GMT

Hello everyone,

We are deploying and building a PA VM on Azure.
During deployment, there was no option to select between HDD and SSD, so we built it on an HDD.

Therefore, as a test, we stopped the virtual machine (Palo Alto) and migrated it from HDD to SSD in Azure.
Afterward, we started Palo Alto and performed a differential check, and there were no problems.
*We have now migrated back to HDD.

As described above, is migrating from HDD to SSD in Azure supported for Palo Alto?

Re: Regarding the migration from HDD to SSD for PA-VM running in the Azure environment

BPry — Wed, 13 May 2026 19:29:47 GMT

@Otsuka,

This process for a VM series would be pretty much invisible to the end device, and it's something that you're going to need to do before 2028 before Microsoft does it for you regardless. This should not cause any issues, but I'm unaware of whether or not PAN actually officially supports it or not.

Re: Regarding the migration from HDD to SSD for PA-VM running in the Azure environment

Otsuka — Thu, 14 May 2026 04:51:25 GMT

@BPry

Thank you for your prompt response!