Specifications

VM-Series Deployment Guide 9
About the VM-Series Firewall License the VM-Series Firewall
In order to activate the licenses, complete the following tasks:
 Verify that the VM-Series firewalls that you just deployed, display as Managed Devices and are connected to
Panorama.
 Select Panorama > Device Deployment > Licenses and click Refresh. Select the VM-Series firewalls for which
to retrieve subscription licenses and click
OK.
Panorama will apply the licenses to each firewall that has been deployed with the matching auth-code.
Upgrade the PAN-OS Software Version
Now that the VM-Series firewall has network connectivity and the base PAN-OS software is installed, consider
upgrading to the latest version of PAN-OS.
Upgrade the VM-Series Model
The licensing process for the VM-Series firewall uses the UUID and the CPU ID to generate a unique serial
number for each VM-Series firewall. Hence, when you generate a license, the license is mapped to a specific
instance of the VM-Series firewall and cannot be modified.
In order to apply a new capacity license to a firewall that has been previously licensed, you need to clone the
existing (fully configured) VM-Series firewall. During the cloning process, the firewall is assigned a unique
UUID, and you can therefore apply a new license to the cloned instance of the firewall.
Use the instructions in this section, if you are:
 Migrating from an evaluation license to a production license.
 Upgrading the model to allow for increased capacity. For example you want to upgrade from the VM-200 to
the VM-1000-HV license.
If you have purchased an evaluation auth-code, you can license up to 5 VM-Series firewalls with
the VM-1000-HV capacity license for a period of 30 or 60 days. Because this solution allows you
to deploy one VM-Series firewall per ESXi host, the ESXi cluster can include a maximum of 5
ESXi hosts when using an evaluation license.
Upgrade PAN-OS Version
1. From the web interface, navigate to Device > Licenses and make sure you have the correct VM-Series firewall license
and that the license is activated.
On the VM-Series firewall standalone version, navigate to
Device > Support and make sure that you have activated
the support license.
2. To upgrade the VM-Series firewall PAN-OS software, select
Device > Software.
3. Click
Refresh to view the latest software release and also review the Release Notes to view a description of the
changes in a release and to view the migration path to install the software.
4. Click
Download to retrieve the software then click Install.