Private Cloud

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

VM-Series Overview in NSX-T Private Cloud

Deploying VM Series in NSX-T Private Cloud

Reference Architectures/How to Guides

Resources

Customer Support Portal Resources

Digital Learning Courses

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Technical Documentation

Templates, Scripts and Deployment Resources

Ansible playbooks

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.

Palo Alto Networks LIVEcommunity Supported

https://github.com/mohanadelamin/pa-vm-ansible

Discussions

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Author	Topic	Views	Replies
bachiralhaddad 12-05-2024	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, posted in VM-Series in the Private Cloud	70	0
Alexander Schrader 12-04-2024	VM Interfaces disconnected after ESXi Upgrade to 8.0.3 Hi, after an upgrade of an ESXi box hosting a PaloAlto VM we had issues which in the end forced usto reinstall the instance. We upgraded a VMware ES... — Read more posted in VM-Series in the Private Cloud	149	0
Glenyvie 11-23-2024	Cannot log in to GUI and CLI after upgrade to 11.1.4-h7 After the upgrade to 11.1.4-h7 from 11.1.2-h3, we cannot log in using our admin credential on the GUI. We are getting error "Invalid username or passw... — Read more posted in VM-Series in the Private Cloud	389	2
pit-jm 11-11-2024	PAN-VM OpenStack interface assignments Hi, we have come came across the issue that the PAN-VM appliance relies on the PCI topology to assign network interfaces and not the mac address. Th... — Read more posted in VM-Series in the Private Cloud	131	0
AnupamGaur_Nomios 11-13-2024	logging and device groups Hello , I have a firewall and i integrated it with Panorama . However , i only make use of templates in Panorama , so no device groups . My Panora... — Read more posted in VM-Series in the Private Cloud	190	1