Palo Alto VM-100 User Manual page 11

About the VM-Series Firewall
Registered the auth-code to the support account. If you don't register the auth-code, the licensing server

will fail to create a license.
Configured the VMware Service Manager and entered this auth-code on Panorama. On Panorama, select

VMWare Service Manager
If you have purchased an evaluation auth-code, you can license up to 5 VM-Series firewalls with
the VM-1000-HV capacity license for a period of 30 or 60 days. Because this solution allows you
to deploy one VM-Series firewall per ESXi host, the ESXi cluster can include a maximum of 5
ESXi hosts when using an evaluation license.
In order to activate the licenses, complete the following tasks:
Verify that the VM-Series firewalls that you just deployed, display as

Panorama.
Select

Panorama > Device Deployment > Licenses
to retrieve subscription licenses and click
Panorama will apply the licenses to each firewall that has been deployed with the matching auth-code.
Upgrade the PAN-OS Software Version (Standalone Version)
Now that the VM-Series firewall has network connectivity and the base PAN-OS software is installed, consider
upgrading to the latest version of PAN-OS. Use the following instructions for firewalls that are not deployed in
a high availability (HA) configuration. For firewalls deployed in HA, refer to the
Guide.
Upgrade PAN-OS Version (Standalone Version)
1. From the web interface, navigate to
license and that the license is activated.
On the VM-Series firewall standalone version, navigate to
activated the support license.
2. (Required for a firewall that is in production) Save a backup of the current configuration file.
a. Select
Device > Setup > Operations
b. Select the XML file that contains your running configuration (for example,
to export the configuration file.
OK
c. Save the exported file to a location external to the firewall. You can use this backup to restore the
configuration if you have problems with the upgrade.
VM-Series Deployment Guide
to add the
Authorization Code
and click
.
OK
and make sure you have the correct VM-Series firewall
Device > Licenses
and click
Export named configuration snapshot
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License and Upgrade the VM-Series Firewall
.
Managed Devices
Select the VM-Series firewalls for which
Refresh.
PAN-OS 6.1 New Features
and make sure that you have
Device > Support
running-config.xml
and are connected to
.
) and click
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