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VM-Series
Deployment
Guide
System Requirements and Limitations
Set Up a VM-Series Firewall on an ESXi Server
Limitations
The VM-Series firewall functionality is very similar to the Palo Alto Networks hardware firewalls, but with the
following limitations:
Dedicated CPU cores are recommended.
Only High Availability (HA) lite is supported (active/passive with no stateful failover).
High Availability (HA) Link Monitoring is not supported on VM-Series firewalls on ESXi. Use Path
Monitoring to verify connectivity to a target IP address or to the next hop IP address.
Up to 10 total ports can be configured; this is a VMware limitation. One port will be used for management
traffic and up to 9 can be used for data traffic.
Only the vmxnet3 driver is supported.
Virtual systems are not supported.
vMotion of the firewall is not supported.
Jumbo frames are not supported.
Link Aggregation must be enabled on the ESXi host.