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Welcome to Palo Alto Networks Academy. We are happy to have your college as our Authorized
Academy Center (AAC). We are happy to share our Next-Generation Virtual Machines (VMs) with you so
you can teach our technology at your classrooms for benefit of your students of the next-generation.
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Add and deploy your VM
6. From your main Account page, add your VM:
a. Go to the Assets tab, and select VM-Series Auth-Code the button.
b. Enter the Auth code at the following tab:
c. Click the check box under the Actions column. (Be sure to use the Auth codes from the
Order Summary form. Your VM code is the Auth code for the PAN-VM-100-LAB).
d. Once your VM’s Auth code is registered so that you can deploy it, you should see a
download button next to your VM or Auth code as included below:
Download your VM
7. Click on the download button or icon to access the Downloads page:
i. From the Downloads page, access the OVF and disk image file for your VM.
ii. From the PAN-OS for VM-Series Base Images section of the Downloads page:
a. Select the PA-VM-version.zip file.
b. Select the version of your choice.
This zip file contains an OVF file and a VMdk disk image file. Both files are required.
iii. Next, deploy the VM using the downloaded files:
a. Import the OVF file set into your VMware environment.
This step assumes that you familiar with VMware and have an ESX environment
up and running. See the VM-Series Deployment Guide for more details:
https://live.paloaltonetworks.com/docs/DOC-4170
Register your VM
8. Once the VM is up and running, retrieve the UUID and the CPUID for the VM:
i. Power on the VM.
ii. Wait for it to finish booting.
iii. Gain access to the console.
iv. Login using the user and password combination: admin\admin.
v. Run the show system info command and note the values listed for the following:
vm-cpuid
vm-uuid
9. Register your VM.
i. Under the support portal:
a. Go to the Assets tab.
b. Click on VM-Series Auth-Codes.
c. Locate your VM by the auth code:
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ii.Enter your UUID and CPUID. (Optionally, you can upload a device file generated by
VMware to populate the UUID and CPUID.)
iii. Click Submit. System generates a device serial number. A page pops up to confirm this.
iv. Fill in the location.
v. Click Submit to finish the process.
Now you can ‘License your VM’ using the serial number.
License your VM
Once the serial number is generated:
10. Locate the device in the support portal:
i. Go to Assets > Devices.
ii. Click the download button in the license column to download the license key file:
iii. Confirm that the VM has a valid IP address and subnet mask and a DNS server assigned
to the management interface.
iv. Run the following commands from the console of the VM:
configure
set deviceconfig system ip-address <ip address>
set deviceconfig system netmask <subnet mask>
set deviceconfig system default-gateway <gateway>
set deviceconfig system dns-setting servers primary <dns>
commit
exit
NOTE: By default the management IP address is 192.168.1.1/24. See page 12 in the VM-Series
Deployment Guide for more details: https://live.paloaltonetworks.com/docs/DOC-4170. For
quick reference, review the information below on ‘Configure your Initial VM-Series Firewall.’
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4. Make sure the virtual network adapter is connected and assigned to the correct virtual
switch. The management interface will be the 1st network adapter in the list:
iii. Under the same page, activate the remaining Auth code using the “activate feature
using authorization code” link. Use the Auth code listed for PAN-VM-100-BND:
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