VM-Series in the Private Cloud

IPsec tunnel doesn't connect - no errors seen

Hi everyone, do you have any idea why this tunnel will not establish? 

I'm trying to connect with a partner company. The IPsec config is identical across two templates.  Both sites have their own unique public IP and are connecting to the same peer

Palo Alto VM-Series Software Firewall Keeps Shutting Down in Ubuntu Desktop 24.04.2 LTS KVM

Subject: Palo Alto VM-Series Software Firewall Keeps Shutting Down in Ubuntu Desktop 24.04.2 LTS KVM Good day from Singapore, I have asked ChatGPT Artificial Intelligence (AI) for assistance in installing and setting up Palo Alto VM-Series Software...

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 ESXi host from 7.0.3.x to 8.0.3, 24280767 and after the reboot everything seemed fine at first sight.

PA-VM on ESXi 8.0.2 'interface configured but down'

I'm grateful to the person who wrote this article, and I'm sharing it here so that others don't go crazy like I did.

PA-VM on ESXi 'interface configured but down' - Red9

By default DPDK is enabled on VM-Series firewalls as stated below. If the VM

AWS HA IP-Secondary Not Working

Hi

I am having issues with 2 Palo Alto's setup as an HA Pair using IP-Secondary failover, where the Secondary IP Address does not move between the two devices.

I have found the following article which shows the error I am getting in the logs:-

Commit Failure Enabling DHCPv6 Prefix Delegation

Hello! I have a Panorama running 11.2.2-h1 managing an A/P HA pair of VM firewalls running 11.1.6-h3. I'm trying to configure the firewalls' interfaces to configured their IPv6 addresses based on a prefix delegated by the ISP on the WAN + a ULA addre

Compatibility VM-Series for VMware NSX

Hi, I would like to ask whether NSX-T is compatible for PANOS 11.1. 

from the Compatibility Matrix page, only stated for 4.0. 

https://docs.paloaltonetworks.com/compatibility-matrix/reference/vm-series-firewalls/vms-series-hypervisor-support?otp=

Ethernet doesn't up with Evaluation Lisence

I'm testing PA-VM with Evaluation-Lisence.

MGMT port connected to network under an internet-router lan-segment area,

but PA-VM ethernet1/1 doesn't receive dhcp-ip address,even ethernet1/1 link-upped.

and ethernet1/2 cannot link-up.

I want to test etherne

NGFW Credit VCPU

HI Everyone.

I have Partner portal and i already got License for last 3 months 3 times but i didn't used all Resources credit. now i am facing this issue vCpus Allocation 8/8 , i don't have any firewall i remove all the firewall from previous prof

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 password" and "Your login session has expired and you have been logged out for security reasons. Please l

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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] kernel: [ 0.000000] Linux version 4.18.0-240.1.1.20.pan.x86_64 [log]
SYSTEM REBOOT [Unkown reboot at Sun

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-alive down. 

Any insights as to what went wrong?

What are the considerations on the VM host side pr