PA4020 to PA3050 migration path

[elaporte]

Hi, We bought a PA3050 appliance that will replace our PA4020 appliance. So I need to know how to migrate data and configuration from the older one to the older one. Is it possible jutst by copying files from one to the other?.

Thanks

[dmoudgil]

Hello elaporte,

PA 4020 comes with 16 gig ports and PA 3050 with 12 gig ports along with 8 gig SFP ports on both platforms so if you are not using those extra 4 gig ports on PA 4020, configuration migration should be smooth.

You can export running-config.xml via ( Device -> Setup -> Operations -> Export named configuration snapshot ) file from PA 4020 to PA 3050.
Here is a document for your reference:-
https://goo.gl/tI5VER

Please make sure both the firewalls are on same PAN os version before you migrate the configuration.

-Dinesh Moudgil

[bmorris1]

Hello elaporte,

Whilst you can just copy the configration across by exporting the config and importing it, if you are going from one hardware platform to a different one then this is not currently supported so you may run into issues.

hope this helps,

Ben

[mvidic]

Hello,

We migrated a configuration from one platform to another many times. As @dmoudgil said, as long as you are on PA-4020 not using the interfaces that are not available on PA-3050 and you have same versions of PAN-OS you should be good. The versions even don't have to be completely the same. You can do for example 6.0.x->6.0.y or 6.1.x->6.1.y etc.