Setup a HomeLab to test PAN VM Firewall

[nextgenhappines]

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,

E

[Gertjan-HFG]

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

[nextgenhappines]

@Gertjan-HFG   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 ),

[Gertjan-HFG]

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