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Setup a HomeLab to test PAN VM Firewall

nextgenhappines — Mon, 20 Feb 2017 00:56:16 GMT

Hello,

For those who runs the VM Firewall in your home test lab enivronment, can you share your choice of hypervisor, also your current detail hardware spec? I am interested to setup a home lab ESXi server for testing PAN firewall and other projects as well. But looking for hardware to support SR-IOV and DPDK seems to be very expensive. If this is for lab testing or to use it to replace the home firewall (PA200), do I really need SR-IOV and DPDK?

Thanks,

Re: Setup a HomeLab to test PAN VM Firewall

Retired Member — Mon, 20 Feb 2017 21:02:39 GMT

SR-IO and DPDK only increases througput, no more no less

So it depends on your homelab requirements.

Do you want more than 600Mb Threat prevention throughput, you need SR-IO and DPDK and a vm100 or higher license

Re: Setup a HomeLab to test PAN VM Firewall

nextgenhappines — Tue, 21 Feb 2017 16:19:27 GMT

@Retired Member Let say I want to have a PA200 experience. If I have a VM50 license. What hardware do you need ( I am aware of I need 4.5GB of RAM minimum, 60+GB Disk space ),

Re: Setup a HomeLab to test PAN VM Firewall

Retired Member — Tue, 21 Feb 2017 18:05:32 GMT

For PA200 performance with a VM-50 you don't need SR-IO and PCI passthrough

Speeds below are only valid for PAN-OS 8