Specifications

8 VM-Series Deployment Guide
License the VM-Series Firewall About the VM-Series Firewall
Activate the License for the VM-Series NSX Edition Firewall
Panorama serves as the central point of administration for the VM-Series NSX edition firewalls and the license
activation process is automated. When a new VM-Series NSX edition firewall is deployed, it communicates with
Panorama to obtain the license. Therefore, you need to make sure that Panorama has internet access and can
connect to the Palo Alto Networks update server to retrieve the licenses. For an overview of the components
and requirements for deploying the VM-Series NSX edition firewall, see VM-Series NSX Edition Firewall
Overview.
For this integrated solution, the auth-code (for example, PAN-VM-!000-HV-SUB-BND-NSX2) includes
licenses for threat prevention, URL filtering and WildFire subscriptions and premium support for the requested
period.
In order to activate the license, you must have completed the following tasks:
 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 to add the Authorization Code.
• If your VM-Series firewall does not have Internet
access.
1. Navigate to Device > Licenses and click the Activate Feature
using Auth Code
link.
2. Click
Download Authorization File, and download the
authorizationfile.txt on the client machine.
3. Copy the authorizationfile.txt to a computer that has access to the
Internet and log in to the support portal. Click
My VM-Series
Auth-Codes
link and select the applicable auth-code from the
list and click the
Register VM link.
4. On the
Register Virtual Machine tab upload the authorization
file. This will complete the registration process and the serial
number of your VM-Series firewall will be attached to your
account records.
5. Navigate to
Assets > My Devices and search for the VM-Series
device just registered and click the
PA-VM link. This will
download the VM-Series license key to the client machine.
6. Copy the license key to the machine that can access the web
interface of the VM-Series firewall and navigate to
Device >
Licenses
.
7. Click
Manually Upload License link and enter the license key.
When the capacity license is activated on the firewall, a reboot
occurs.
8. Log in to the device and confirm that the
Dashboard displays a
valid serial number and that the
PA-VM license displays in the
Device > Licenses tab.
Activate the License