topic Re: VM for the Palo alto firewall in General Topics

VM for the Palo alto firewall

Mohammed_Yasin — Thu, 06 Oct 2022 13:07:38 GMT

Will take a backup from the VM (NVA) for the Paloalto firewall that exists in the Azure environment,

The query, is whether taking a backup will *affect/not affect* the services or interrupt the network traffic managed by the Paloalto NVA during and after the backup of the NVA?

Re: VM for the Palo alto firewall

JayGolf — Fri, 07 Oct 2022 00:42:38 GMT

Hi @Mohammed_Yasin ,

Navigating to Device -> Setup -> Operations and saving/exporting a named configuration snapshot will not affect the services or interrupt the network traffic managed by the Palo Alto.

I would only import a new named configuration during a change window on an existing Palo Alto.

Hope this helps.

Re: VM for the Palo alto firewall

BPry — Mon, 10 Oct 2022 02:53:20 GMT

@Mohammed_Yasin,

Something to be mindful of is that disk-image and machine-image backups are not supported by PAN. It's recommend that you simply take a backup of the configuration and deploy a new firewall using the configuration to restore functionality. In the past restores have always been an issue and you end up rebuilding it anyways.