FlexVM Licensing with Software NGFW Credits

[vsys_remo]

Hi all,

As you probably know, paloalto recently changed the licensing of VM firewalls. With greater flexibility (and higher licensing costs), there is now also the possibility to increase only the RAM for such a VM firewall which results in higher capacity for rules, zones, concurrent sessions. Some of the specs which change with a different memory profile are written here: https://docs.paloaltonetworks.com/vm-series/10-0/vm-series-deployment/license-the-vm-series-firewall...

My question@ now are: are these the only specs that change with a different memory profile? What about concurrent dercypted sessions, virtual routers, ...? Does the vm refuse to boot if there is for example 20 GB of RAM attached or does the vm simply use the highes possible amount of RAM according to the memory profile?

[emr_1]

Comparison Tool has spec for VMs

Here is example to compare 6 types of VMs

https://www.paloaltonetworks.com/products/product-comparison?chosen=vm-series (2 vcpu, 6.5 gb),vm-se...

I can see there is difference in SSL Decryption section, Security Profiles, so on..

Regard,

Emr

[vsys_remo]

Hi @emr_1 

Thanks for your reply.

I saw that there are new options in the comparison tool, but so far these options actually are only the "old" vm-types (vm-100, vm-300, ...) with new names. My question is if only the RAM is increased. As shown in the link there are some specs which change if RAM is increased but what is about all the other specs which I mentionned (virtual router, concurrent decrypted sessions, ...)

[vsys_remo]

@istrydom / @sduvoisin / @vogeln 

Are you able to answer this prior to anyone in the community? 😉

An answer will probably also help others and not only me ...

[istrydom]

@vsys_remo It loads the memory profile based on the memory assigned. Ex: if you assign 20G RAM, it will load 16G memory profile (one out of 6 profiles that we support)