I’ve had the opportunity to deploy a few instances of Palo Alto Network’s Panorama and VM-Series firewall into VMware NSX environments. On the whole, it’s a rather straight forward process with some deep documentation provided by the folks at Palo Alto Networks (PAN). However, they have to rely upon the code / APIs provided by someone else (VMware), meaning there are bound to be things that don’t work quite as you might imagine. This post will cover a few gotchas that have caused me grief in the past. VM-Series Firewall Files for NSX If you’re using the VM-Series firewall specifically for NSX, make sure to download and extract the NSX specific files onto your web server. Shion Zankoku Na Mahou No Tenshi Download on this page.

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I’ve found that the files don’t always match up – sometimes a zip will say it’s for NSX, while the files themselves are not. Here’s an easy way to spot the right files: • VM-Series firewall for NSX looks like this: PA-VM- NSX-6. Free Software Program Kasir on this page. 0.0.ovf • VM-Series firewall for vSphere looks like this: PA-VM- ESX-6.0.0.ovf If you try deploying the vSphere VM-Series firewall with NSX, it will fail. Note: If you end up changing the deployment URL on Panorama after registering the PAN service, make sure to also edit the PAN service definition in NSX and update the deployment URL. I’ve found that these two values don’t always match up when changed from the Panorama side.

Service Definition Functions The Panorama 6.0 and 6.1 releases had difficulty registering their service definitions properly with NSX 6.1. Specifically, I’d register the service with NSX Manager and see the functions list was empty. I believe this was caused by changes to the NSX API. To view this, head to Service Definitions and look for the Palo Alto Networks NGFW. PAN Service Definition If the functions column is blank, you’ll need to use PAN to resolve it.

Basically, you query the NSX API for the service ID of the PAN service definition and then send a PUT request with the Firewall and IDS_IPS strings. Very easy to do. This seems to be fully fixed in Panorama 6.1.1 – I haven’t had the issue since then. Data Traffic Profile After you’ve intergrated the NGFW service profile with NSX, navigate to Service Definitions and double click the Palo Alto Networks NGFW service. There will be a new service instance created called Palo Alto Networks NGFW-GlobalInstance.