topic Re: Panorama on Vmware - memory usage in General Topics

Panorama on Vmware - memory usage

ta185020 — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 09:06:27 GMT

Hi Guys,

We have installed Wind 2008 server, with 20 GB Ram with 800 Gb HDD for Panorama.

But when we configure panorama, it does not show that it can use anything more than 3.6 Gb of Ram.

We have installed VM ware Server, which on Vmware site says would support up to 8 GB ram.

But in our case, the Panorama cannot be modified to anything more than 3.6 Gb post installation(Find attached)

Please advise if there is a way to increase the RAM used by Panorama through your tech team.

Rgds,

Tauseef

bpappas — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 13:33:52 GMT

Per the Panorama Deployment Guide v1.0: Panorama memory requires 2GB of RAM and has a maximum of 4GB RAM

-Benjamin

migration — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 14:24:59 GMT

Hi,

the RAM limit is inside the PANOS 32bit. A 32 bit architecture cannott address more than 4 GB of memory.

You see 3.6 GB only because the other RAM is used for peripheral device's memory mapping (video, audio, I/O, etc).

Regards