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VM-Series in the Public Cloud
The VM-Series is the virtualized form factor of the next-generation firewall. Use this discussion as a resource to discuss VM-Series deployments across public clouds like AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, Oracle Cloud, and Alibaba.
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VM-Series in the Public Cloud
The VM-Series is the virtualized form factor of the next-generation firewall. Use this discussion as a resource to discuss VM-Series deployments across public clouds like AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, Oracle Cloud, and Alibaba.
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Welcome to the VM-Series in the Public Cloud discussion forum! This community exists as a resource for you to discuss VM-Series deployments on AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, Oracle Cloud and Alibaba. We encourage you to engage in this rapidly growing community to share ideas, pose questions, and propose real-world solutions to any challenges that may arise.

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

To make this forum valuable and enjoyable for everyone, please review the following guidelines before participating: Rules and Best Practices Be Respectful: Treat fellow community members with professionalism and courtesy. Constructive discussions are encouraged; disrespectful or inflammatory comments are not. Stay On-Topic: This board is d...

JayGolf by • Community Team Member
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AWS IPSec tunnel active/active HA with BGP

Looking for some help here. I have an ongoing case with support concerning AWS tunnel issues. My production FWs are active/active but not in sync. Just always been that way, it's the way I inherited it. I have 4 tunnels to AWS (2 on each FW) BGP all works fine but if I reboot one FW when it comes back it blows up all the tunnels. So support...

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VM-seires sizing on AWS and Azure

hello experts, Plan to implement VM FW on AWS and Azure. Gone through the credit calculator https://www.paloaltonetworks.com/resources/tools/ngfw-credits-estimator Just wondering how many vCPU is required. Except throughput, CDSS and number of GW, what else should i need to put into consideration, more specific the requirement on the cloud plat...

vm-series on Azure with hyperthreading disabled

By default VMs on Azure will run with hyperthreading enabled. It seems possible to run with hyperthreading disabled on Azure, and running vm-series with hyperthreading disabled is in fact recommended on other virtualization platforms. Is anyone running vm-series on Azure with hyperthreading disabled? It seems to me that the way vm-series is de...

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AVD VMs Unavailable When Traffic Passes Through Palo Alto Firewall

Hi All, We’re facing an issue where AVD VMs show as unavailable when routed through the Palo Alto firewall. Required URLs and services are already whitelisted as per Microsoft documentation. Even with an ANY-ANY rule and no security profiles, the issue persists. Microsoft’s AVD and networking teams suspect the firewall, as things work fine when ...

Unable to connect log collector to panorama

I have a panorama VM running on Azure, I am currently trying to bring up some log collector VMs also on azure to handle the logs of my firewalls. I have been able to deploy the log collectors, but when I add the log collector to the panorama through the "Managed collectors" section, I do not get any connection status, the connection status is ju...

PANW aws vm-series ipsec tunnel ip /30 Tunnel interface

Question on aws vm series ipsec tunnel ip /30 Tunnel interface Hello Livecommunity, how is it going? I hope it's going well I have a doubt, thinking in vmseries on Amazon, where from the virtual stick arme several ipsec tunnels site to sire either onprem or towards on prem or not, thinking in the typical network /30 for what is the tunnel ...

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Firewalls in Active Active using Azure Internal Load balancer

Hi, we have deployed Palo-alto firewalls on Azure and a Standard Internal Load Balancer with single front-end IP and single backend pool, does LB maintain session state if - (1) communication is sourced from Azure VNET destined to On-premise ? (2) communication is sourced from On-premise destined to Azure VNET ? We don't have a Virtual Network...

Palo Alto VM-Series in Azure DMZ - AVS

Okay see if I can word this as best as possible. I made up the network IP addresses for this diagram. We are in the progress of migrating one of our on-prem DC to the Azure public Cloud. Obstacle we are facing is with how the DMZ will look and work specifically with DMZ network in AVS. - Current design is using the dedicated inbound option ...

IPSec Tunnel is up but not passing traffic (On-Prem to Azure Palo Alto VM)

Hi guys. GOAL:I have an office in India with several users. They need to access a server in Azure that sits behind Virtual PA using Global Protect. I have successfully setup an IPSec Tunnel between my On-prem PA and an Azure PA, however, I am not passing any traffic in either direction.I suspect I might be over simplifying this deployment. I cho...

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Resolved! PaloAlto Firewall Firmware Upgrade (Not using Panorama)

Hi Guys,I have a query regarding VM Series Palo alto Firmware Upgrade.If I want to upgrade from 11.0.4 series to 11.1.6 series, Do I need to download and install 11.1 major release or I just have to download the 11.1 Major Update and then directly download and install 11.1.x version.NEED YOUR EXPERT ADVISE.

KishorTP by • L1 Bithead
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Resolved! Azure deployment: why SNAT is not needed for E/W traffic?

I've been checking the official Azure deployment guide, section Deploying Outbound and East-West Security. https://www.paloaltonetworks.com/resources/guides/azure-transit-vnet-deployment-guide What I don't understand why SNAT is not required for E/W traffic while it is required for inbound traffic. What makes LB use the same FW for return tr...

santonic by • L6 Presenter
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Resolved! AWS VM-Series Virtual Bundle1 Health Check issue with Gateway Load Balancer

I am following the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c28ZwlhCIWE to implement a Centralized design using Bundle1. However, I am getting health check issue for the GWLB. I capture packets on the firewall and can see packet from the GWLB (10.100.0.94) to the FW (10.100.0.89). but no response. Target group always time out to get a response. I...

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KimSiah by • L1 Bithead
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SSL Forward Proxy - Exclude certain IPs from decryption

Hi there, I'm running PA-VM (VM-300) version 9.1.16-h3 in Azure. I have configured response pages which work as expected. However, I cannot seem to stop decryption of SSL traffic for specific source IPs Out of frustration I have configured an any/any do not decrypt run and I can still cleary see SSL traffic being decrypted rather than just the c...

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