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Can Panorama Virtual Appliance be Vmotioned?

jelmore1576 — Tue, 12 Jun 2018 18:31:41 GMT

Does Panorama support vmotion? I know the virtual firewall does not but the documentation makes no mention of Panorama.

Re: Can Panorama Virtual Appliance be Vmotioned?

hfregoso — Tue, 12 Jun 2018 22:46:49 GMT

Hello

VMotion is not supported on Panorama. The best method for HA is to deploy an additional VM in a different ESXi host.

Re: Can Panorama Virtual Appliance be Vmotioned?

Tom-Lee — Wed, 10 Feb 2021 15:39:08 GMT

Hi, can we have an update on support vMotion support position for Panorama as support was brought in for 9.1.6 released 11/04/2020 in that version (for firewall at least) as per https://docs-new.paloaltonetworks.com/vm-series/9-1/vm-series-deployment/set-up-a-vm-series-firewall-on-an-esxi-server/install-a-vm-series-firewall-on-vmware-vsphere-hypervisor-esxi/use-vmotion-to-move-the-vm-series-firewall-between-hosts-esxi

Re: Can Panorama Virtual Appliance be Vmotioned?

hfregoso — Wed, 10 Feb 2021 17:36:27 GMT

Here is an update two years later.

Vmotion is supported for cold migration when powered down with live(hot/enhanced) vmotion it is not supported as the Panorama process could miss heartbeats during vmotion causing processes to fail and kernel crash.

Re: Can Panorama Virtual Appliance be Vmotioned?

KevinMAC — Mon, 07 Feb 2022 16:42:09 GMT

Is the existing Licence valid once vmotioned? i.e. does the CPUID not change and is it tied to the licence?

Thanks!

Re: Can Panorama Virtual Appliance be Vmotioned?

Tom-Lee — Tue, 08 Feb 2022 09:24:45 GMT

CPU ID doesn't change for any vm when vmotioned. The cluster if different host types should be set to the same CPU features across the cluster and i've never seen an occurrence of ID changing (check EVC https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/1005764#What_is_EVC)

Re: Can Panorama Virtual Appliance be Vmotioned?

KevinMAC — Tue, 08 Feb 2022 09:29:13 GMT

Thanks for the reply & link Tom-Lee. Going in blind on this, so just wanted to make sure wouldn't have any issue vmotioning Panorama.

Re: Can Panorama Virtual Appliance be Vmotioned?

Tom-Lee — Tue, 08 Feb 2022 09:33:24 GMT

You won't if its shut down, otherwise as @hfregoso says it will miss heartbeat and hang. Also note that license is tied to serial number for panorama which doesn't change even if CPU does unlike VM-Series where SN is generated when you activate and is tied to CPU/GUID

Re: Can Panorama Virtual Appliance be Vmotioned?

wayfairneteng — Thu, 16 Jun 2022 17:49:17 GMT

Hfregoso,

Did you get an official document from Paloalto saying Cold vMotion is supported? or is this something you have tried personally?
We are in the process of decommissioning data center and we need to move Panoroma.
So far I have not found any official document supporting cold vMotion.

Re: Can Panorama Virtual Appliance be Vmotioned?

Muruganandham.SP — Wed, 05 Jun 2024 06:27:16 GMT

Have you got any updates on this? An official documentation saying if the vMotion is supported on VM-Panorama instance?