
Service the PA-7000 Series Firewall Hardware
Increase the PA-7000 Series Firewall LPC Log Storage
Capacity
The PA-7000 Series firewall ships with four 1TB drives installed in the
and each drive pair (A1/A2 and B1/B2) is in a separate RAID 1 array to provide 2TBs of log
storage. You can replace the 1TB drives with 2TB drives to double the log storage capacity to
4TBs.
The logs on the 1TB drives will not be available after upgrading drives on a PA-7000
Series firewall that is running a PAN-OS 7.0.7 or earlier release. Even if this is acceptable,
we recommend that you perform this upgrade during a maintenance window.If it is
important to you to retain logs, you must upgrade to Panorama 7.0.8 or a later release.
The following procedure describes both scenarios.
When ordering new drives from Palo Alto Networks or your reseller, you will receive each
AMC and drive as a single unit. Do not attempt to replace the drive in the AMC with
a third-party drive. Also, do not mix drive models within a RAID 1 array (for example,
the drive model must be the same for both drives in the A1/A2 RAID 1 array). You can,
however, mix drive models in different RAID 1 arrays on the same LPC. For example, the
drives in the A1/A2 array can both be model ST91000640NS and the drives in the B1/B2
array can both be model ST1000NX0423.
STEP 1 |
Put the provided ESD wrist strap on your wrist ensuring that the metal contact is touching
your skin. Then attach (snap) one end of the ground cable to the wrist strap and remove the
alligator clip from the banana clip on the other end of the ESD grounding cable. Plug the
banana clip end into one of the ESD ports located on the front of the chassis before handling
ESD sensitive hardware. For details on the ESD port location, see
STEP 2 |
Verify that the RAID 1 status for the installed drives shows there are at least two functioning
RAID 1 arrays. During the upgrade, you will upgrade one RAID 1 array at a time and there
must be at least one other RAID 1 array that is available to the firewall. The firewall will show
an abort error if you try to remove the only functioning array from the configuration.
To view the RAID status, run the following command:
admin@PA-7080>
show
system raid detail
For example, the following output from a PA-7080 firewall shows that both drive arrays (S7A
and S7B) are
Available
, each disk is
Present
, and the status of each disk shows
active
sync
.
Disk Pair S7A Available
Status clean
Disk id A1 Present
model : ST91000640NS
size : 953869 MB
PA-7000 Series Firewall Hardware Reference
199
©
2023 Palo Alto Networks, Inc.