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Palo alto 8. - keep booting after migrating to ESXi6.7

L2 Linker

Hi Palo alto 8.- was installed EVE--NG at wmware Workstation. and it worked very well. But after migrating to ESXi 6.7, it keeps booting without stopping. 

Please see the below error message. 


Booting from Hard Disk...
Welcome to the PanOS Bootloader.


Hit any key to stop autoboot...
Enter 'maint' for boot menu.
Booting PANOS (sysroot0) after 5 seconds...

Entry:
Booting 'PANOS (sysroot0)'

root (hd0,1)
Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
kernel /boot/vmlinuz ro root=/dev/sda2 init=/sbin/init_single_core console=ttyS
0,9600n8 console=tty0 quiet alternate_root=/dev/vda2 alternate_root=/dev/xvda2
hugepages=0
[Linux-bzImage, setup=0x3c00, size=0x393b50]
SeaBIOS (version rel-1.11.1-0-g0551a4be2c-prebuilt.qemu-project.org)
Machine UUID 49cd976d-fdc8-4db9-8a0d-44c785374260


iPXE (http://ipxe.org) 00:03.0 C980 PCI2.10 PnP PMM+BFF913B0+BFEF13B0 C980

 

 

iPXE (http://ipxe.org) 00:04.0 CA80 PCI2.10 PnP PMM BFF913B0 BFEF13B0 CA80

 

 

iPXE (http://ipxe.org) 00:05.0 CB80 PCI2.10 PnP PMM BFF913B0 BFEF13B0 CB80

 

 

iPXE (http://ipxe.org) 00:06.0 CC80 PCI2.10 PnP PMM BFF913B0 BFEF13B0 CC80

 

 

iPXE (http://ipxe.org) 00:07.0 CD80 PCI2.10 PnP PMM BFF913B0 BFEF13B0 CD80

 

 

iPXE (http://ipxe.org) 00:08.0 CE80 PCI2.10 PnP PMM BFF913B0 BFEF13B0 CE80

 

 

iPXE (http://ipxe.org) 00:09.0 CF80 PCI2.10 PnP PMM BFF913B0 BFEF13B0 CF80

 

 

iPXE (http://ipxe.org) 00:0A.0 D080 PCI2.10 PnP PMM BFF913B0 BFEF13B0 D080

 

Booting from Hard Disk...
Welcome to the PanOS Bootloader.


Hit any key to stop autoboot...
Enter 'maint' for boot menu.
Booting PANOS (sysroot0) after 5 seconds...

Entry:
Booting 'PANOS (sysroot0)'

root (hd0,1)
Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
kernel /boot/vmlinuz ro root=/dev/sda2 init=/sbin/init_single_core console=ttyS
0,9600n8 console=tty0 quiet alternate_root=/dev/vda2 alternate_root=/dev/xvda2
hugepages=0
[Linux-bzImage, setup=0x3c00, size=0x393b50]
SeaBIOS (version rel-1.11.1-0-g0551a4be2c-prebuilt.qemu-project.org)
Machine UUID 49cd976d-fdc8-4db9-8a0d-44c785374260


iPXE (http://ipxe.org) 00:03.0 C980 PCI2.10 PnP PMM+BFF913B0+BFEF13B0 C980

 

 

iPXE (http://ipxe.org) 00:04.0 CA80 PCI2.10 PnP PMM BFF913B0 BFEF13B0 CA80

 

 

iPXE (http://ipxe.org) 00:05.0 CB80 PCI2.10 PnP PMM BFF913B0 BFEF13B0 CB80

 

 

iPXE (http://ipxe.org) 00:06.0 CC80 PCI2.10 PnP PMM BFF913B0 BFEF13B0 CC80

 

 

iPXE (http://ipxe.org) 00:07.0 CD80 PCI2.10 PnP PMM BFF913B0 BFEF13B0 CD80

 

 

iPXE (http://ipxe.org) 00:08.0 CE80 PCI2.10 PnP PMM BFF913B0 BFEF13B0 CE80

 

 

iPXE (http://ipxe.org) 00:09.0 CF80 PCI2.10 PnP PMM BFF913B0 BFEF13B0 CF80

 

 

iPXE (http://ipxe.org) 00:0A.0 D080 PCI2.10 PnP PMM BFF913B0 BFEF13B0 D080

 

Booting from Hard Disk...
Welcome to the PanOS Bootloader.


Hit any key to stop autoboot...
Enter 'maint' for boot menu.
Booting PANOS (sysroot0) after 5 seconds...

Entry:

3 REPLIES 3

Cyber Elite
Cyber Elite

Thank you for the post @PAFrank

 

This looks like compatibility issue. For ESXi 6.7 the minimum supported PAN-OS version is 8.1: https://docs.paloaltonetworks.com/compatibility-matrix/vm-series-firewalls/vms-series-hypervisor-sup...

 

Is version you are running 8.0 or 8.1?

 

Kind Regards

Pavel

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L2 Linker

Thank you PavelK for your nice explanation. 

The version is 8.1.x. I forgot what is the x.

Then , based on the document you mentioned above, I tried  version 8.1.3.  it can work, but it is vey unstable. 

Is the latest version better, such as 9.x ?

Thank you

Cyber Elite
Cyber Elite

Thank you for reply @PAFrank

 

Yes, I would recommend to move to version 9.1.X.

 

Kind Regards

Pavel

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