Private Cloud

Welcome to the Palo Alto Networks VM-Series on Private Cloud resource page. Here you will find information about VM-Series on Hypervisors like ESXi, KVM, HyperV and also private cloud environments like VMware NSX-T, Nutanix, Cisco ACI and more. This page will help you get started or find advanced architecture designs and other resources to help accelerate your VM-Series deployment in these environments. Engage the community and ask questions in the discussion forum below.
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Private Cloud

Welcome to the Palo Alto Networks VM-Series on Private Cloud resource page. Here you will find information about VM-Series on Hypervisors like ESXi, KVM, HyperV and also private cloud environments like VMware NSX-T, Nutanix, Cisco ACI and more. This page will help you get started or find advanced architecture designs and other resources to help accelerate your VM-Series deployment in these environments. Engage the community and ask questions in the discussion forum below.

How to Videos and Tutorials

Reference Architectures/How to Guides

Digital Learning Courses

Visit Palo Alto Networks' learning platform, Beacon, for free technical knowledge and educational resources related to all of our products.

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Templates, Scripts and Deployment Resources

Example Ansible playbooks to automate the deployment and scaling up/down of Palo Alto Networks VM-Series

The following use cases can be accomplished via this ansible playbooks.

  • Deploy Standalone PA-VM Using deploy.yml playbooks, you can deploy standalone PA-VM.
  • Scale UP or Scale Down the PA-VM Using scaleUp.yml and scaleUp.yml you can scale up or scale down the PA-VM model. For example, you can scale up from VM-50 to VM-100 or from VM-100 to VM-50.
  • Remove the deployment. Using remove.yml you can remove the deployment.
  • Deploy and remove PA-VM Active/Passive HA Cluster. Using deployHA.yml and removeHA.yml you can deploy active/passive HA cluster. The playbook will also make sure every PA-VM run in separate host by applying VM/Host affinity rule.
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JayGolf
01-15-2025

Welcome to the VM-Series in the Private Cloud Discussions!

To make this forum valuable and enjoyable for everyone, please review the following guidelines before participating: Rules and Best Practices Be ... — Read more

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D.Wilk
01-16-2025

ESXi VM-100 11.1.4.-h7 Interfaces won't Come Up Contains a hyperlink

I have deployed and (eval) licensed three VM-100 w/ PAN-OS 11.1.4.-h7 on three different ESXi 8.0 servers in my lab environment. Unfortunately, I cann... — Read more

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JTDefender
12-19-2024

FW (Passive) migrated from VM-2 to VM-1, Caused traffic disruption

FW (Passive) migrated from VM-2 to VM-1, it caused traffic disruption. Observed in both Firewall the system logs were HA1 connection down and HA2 keep... — Read more

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Khairul.Nizam
12-30-2024

PA VM in AWS reboot itself

Hi,Out of sudden during night time out of Production hours, our VM in AWS reboot itself. With error > 2024-12-08 19:58:29 Message [hostname_of_FW] ... — Read more

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bachiralhaddad
12-20-2024

vm series 4 palo alto azure recommended version 11

Hello,Can somone please help me in finding the stable recemmanded version11 for Palo-Alto firewall vm series 4.Thank you.Regards,

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Blogs

New Private Cloud Technology Page on LIVEcommunity! Contains an image Contains a hyperlink

11-23-2021 — Head to LIVEcommunity's new Private Cloud page for blogs, articles, videos, and more related to Palo Alto Networks' Private Cloud. — Read more

Labels: Cisco ACI Live Community Help NSX-T nutanix PAN-OS Private Cloud Technologies VM-Series VMware
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Boost VM-Series Performance with SmartNIC Integration Contains an image Contains a hyperlink

06-16-2021 — Secure traffic in hyperscale data centers and service provider networks with the combined power of VM-Series virtual NGFWs and your SmartNIC. — Read more

Labels: 5G Announcement Data Center Hyper Scale Network Perimeter Next-Generation Firewalls Private Cloud Smart NIC VM-Series
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The Industry’s Most Flexible Software NGFW Consumption Model Contains an image Contains a hyperlink

02-09-2021 — Learn why our new credit-based firewall licensing is designed to provide even more flexibility with virtual firewalls and container firewalls. — Read more

Labels: Customer Success Firewall ngfw Private Cloud
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Nutanix DAG Harvesting Panorama Plugin Contains an image Contains a hyperlink

12-11-2019 — The Panorama plugin for Nutanix is now available. Read about how Panorama can now integrate with Prism Central. Panorama plugin for Nutanix — Read more

Labels: addressgroups Panorama Private Cloud VM-Series
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