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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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VM-Series Overview in NSX-T Private Cloud

Deploying VM Series in NSX-T Private Cloud

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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

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MiBaAveniq 06-30-2026	Migration of VM-Series to other Hypervisor Hi all, we are currently looking for a way to mass-migrate VM-Series Firewalls from VMware ESXi to KVM (HP VM Essentials, HVM). Has anyone experienc... posted in VM-Series in the Private Cloud	188	0
manojcapgemini 07-02-2026	Azure - Palo Alto During deployment from the Azure Marketplace, we are encountering an error indicating that the selected offer (vmseries-flex, bundle2-gen2) is not ava... posted in VM-Series in the Private Cloud	250	1
MarcinMoczulski 01-04-2026	GRPC status UNAVAILABLE in intelligent offload I'm having a problem with Intelligent Traffic Offload.I get:GRPC status UNAVAILABLE in intelligent offloadGRPC status DEADLINE_EXCEEDED in intelligent... posted in VM-Series in the Private Cloud	1292	0
procom 07-29-2025	Upgrade DP Cores on VM Hello everyone, I'm writing to ask if you've experienced something similar with your VM-Series We had a VM with 4 vCPUs (3 DP cores), and we've now ... posted in VM-Series in the Private Cloud	1769	0
K.Mishra548222 07-28-2025	VM series KVM image on eveng login issue I have 30 day free trail Vm series KVM image and it is installed on Eveng setup on Esxi server. I access Eveng and up the pan- os node but it stuck on... posted in VM-Series in the Private Cloud	1718	0

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