VM-Series
Deployment
Guide
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Set Up a VM-Series NSX Edition Firewall
VM-Series NSX Edition Firewall Overview
What are the Components of the NSX Edition Solution?
Table: VMware Components
and
Table: Palo Alto Networks Components
show the components of this joint
Palo Alto Networks and VMware solution. The following topics describe each component in more detail:
vCenter Server
NSX Manager
Panorama
VM-Series NSX Edition
Table: VMware Components
Table: Palo Alto Networks Components
Component
Minimum
Version
Description
vCenter
Server
5.5
The vCenter server is the centralized management tool for the vSphere
suite.
NSX
Manager
6.0
VMware's Networking and Security platform must be installed and
registered with the vCenter server. The NSX Manager is required to
deploy the VM-Series NSX edition firewall on the ESXi hosts within a
ESXi cluster.
ESXi Server
5.5
ESXi is a hypervisor that enables compute virtualization.
Component
Minimum
Version
Description
PAN-OS
6.0
The VM-Series base image (PA-VM-NSX-6.0.0.zip) used for
deploying the VM-Series NSX edition firewall is PAN-OS version 6.0.
The minimum system requirement for deploying the VM-Series NSX
edition firewall on the ESXi server is as follows:
•
Two vCPUs. One for the management plane and one for the
dataplane.
You can assign 2 or 6 additional vCPUs to allocate a total of 2, 4 or
8 vCPUs to the firewall; the management plane only uses one vCPU
and any additional vCPUs are assigned to the dataplane.
•
5GB of memory. Any additional memory will be used by the
management plane only.
•
40GB of virtual disk space.