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

Deploying VM Series in NSX-T Private Cloud

Reference Architectures/How to Guides

Resources

Customer Support Portal Resources

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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.

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laurence64 01-05-2023	10.2.3 not running in Workstation 16 Hi I am trying to upgrade a VM I have running in Workstation 16 , so far if I try and upgrade from 10.1.x to 10.2.x using normal methodology the fi... posted in VM-Series in the Private Cloud	300	2
vij 12-22-2022	Errors - ROOT CA authority untrusted / invalid PA-VM Series 8, vm-mode: Microsoft Azure sw-version: 10.1.6-h6 global-protect-client-package-version: 5.2.1 Issue: when trying to access websites, w... posted in VM-Series in the Private Cloud	286	3
Edsnow 12-09-2022	D-NAT Not Working in PA-VM Workstation Hi, I have deployed PA-VM in workstation, In this the Destination NAT is not working. As per the global counter the packet is dropped on the belo... posted in VM-Series in the Private Cloud	191	0
RudolfTorvenyi1 12-16-2022	Vmware VM with paravirtual controller is supported? Hello, I want to ask regarding PAN-VM in Vmware. VMs in vmware have LSI disk controllers. Can be these controllers changes to vmware paravirtual? Or ... posted in VM-Series in the Private Cloud	251	1
EricMortimer 11-15-2022	I am migrating a Palo HA pair VM to a new host and I would like to validate the steps if anyone can assist. I have the following steps laid out. Please have someone verify if this is correct or if I have forgotten anything. I am migrating the HA pair to a ne... posted in VM-Series in the Private Cloud	226	0