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

Access Palo Alto Networks learning platform to gain free technical insights and educational materials across our full suite of products.

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Software Firewalls Features

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
Malick 06-26-2025	Palo Alto VM removal Hello guys, could anyone guide me through the following process: 1) How do we remove old firewalls from Panorama and from Palo Alto support web s... — Read more posted in VM-Series in the Private Cloud	185	1
A.Singh364644 06-25-2025	GCP Load balancer showing in Unhealthy state. Hi Team, Flow:- On-Prem---->GCP(Interconnect) ---->External-LB---->Palo Alto---->Internal-LB---->GCVE. This is the flow/architectur... — Read more posted in VM-Series in the Private Cloud	131	0
RafaelGarcia 06-24-2025	Invalid configuration error migrating Panorama from AWS VM to ESXi VM Hello, We have an issue migrating Panorama from an AWS VM to an on-premises VM in VMware ESXi. We have followed the guide for VM migration, exporting ... — Read more posted in VM-Series in the Private Cloud	146	0
Zurattos-PEN 06-02-2025	How to Increase Log Retention by Adding Disk to VM-Series Hello,We are currently running 28 Palo Alto VM-Series firewalls, deployed as 14 HA pairs (active/passive). Each firewall is hosted on a virtualized en... — Read more posted in VM-Series in the Private Cloud	651	3
MRose77 05-19-2025	Issue Running PA-VM in VMware Workstation 17.6.3 Hi: I downloaded the 30 day trial PA-VM and am trying to run it in VMware Workstation 17.6.3. I can get it to install, but shuts down after abou... — Read more posted in VM-Series in the Private Cloud	213	0