VM-Series Virtual Next-Generation Firewall - ARM (BYOL)
Palo Alto Networks | PAN-OS 11.2.3-h3Linux/Unix, Other 11.2.3-h3 - 64-bit Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
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No. #1 Secured solution for VM's
What do you like best about the product?
It's the best and most secure solution for protecting my virtual environment. I, till last month, was using a different product; due to a security breach, we moved to Palo Alto.
What do you dislike about the product?
It has no flaws, so there is no dislike at all.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It protects the virtual environment; in my case, I have integrated it with my Gateway load balancer on AWS. It is indeed a cost-saver and the most secured solution.
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Review of Palo Alto VM-Series: Pros and Cons for Secure Virtualized Environments
What do you like best about the product?
Palo Alto VM-Series apart is its ability to provide advanced security capabilities such as threat prevention, application visibility, and user identification in virtualized environments. Its granular visibility and control over application traffic and the ability to apply security policies consistently across physical and virtual networks are particularly valuable in multi-cloud environments.
What do you dislike about the product?
Cost: The VM-Series can be more expensive than other virtualized firewall solutions, and organizations may need to invest in additional licenses and hardware resources to fully utilize the product's capabilities.
Resource-intensive: Running Palo Alto VM-Series requires significant CPU and memory resources, which may not be available on smaller virtualization hosts or cloud instances. This can result in performance issues and increased infrastructure costs.
Learning curve: As with any advanced security solution, there is a learning curve associated with deploying and managing Palo Alto VM-Series. Administrators will need to familiarize themselves with the product's user interface, policies, and configurations, which can take time and effort.
Vendor lock-in: Because Palo Alto VM-Series is a proprietary solution, organizations may be locked into using it for their virtualized firewall needs. This can limit their flexibility and ability to adopt other security solutions that may be a better fit for their needs.
Limited integrations: While Palo Alto VM-Series integrates well with other Palo Alto Networks products and a variety of third-party solutions, there may be some integrations that are not available or require custom development work
Resource-intensive: Running Palo Alto VM-Series requires significant CPU and memory resources, which may not be available on smaller virtualization hosts or cloud instances. This can result in performance issues and increased infrastructure costs.
Learning curve: As with any advanced security solution, there is a learning curve associated with deploying and managing Palo Alto VM-Series. Administrators will need to familiarize themselves with the product's user interface, policies, and configurations, which can take time and effort.
Vendor lock-in: Because Palo Alto VM-Series is a proprietary solution, organizations may be locked into using it for their virtualized firewall needs. This can limit their flexibility and ability to adopt other security solutions that may be a better fit for their needs.
Limited integrations: While Palo Alto VM-Series integrates well with other Palo Alto Networks products and a variety of third-party solutions, there may be some integrations that are not available or require custom development work
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Advanced Threat Prevention: One of the biggest challenges in securing virtualized environments is detecting and preventing advanced threats, such as malware and zero-day attacks. Palo Alto VM-Series offers advanced threat prevention capabilities, including network-based malware detection, behavioral analysis, and sandboxing, which can help organizations detect and prevent advanced threats before they can cause damage.
Application Visibility and Control: Another challenge in securing virtualized environments is gaining visibility and control over application traffic. Palo Alto VM-Series provides granular visibility and control over application traffic, enabling organizations to create policies that enforce application usage and protect against data exfiltration.
Application Visibility and Control: Another challenge in securing virtualized environments is gaining visibility and control over application traffic. Palo Alto VM-Series provides granular visibility and control over application traffic, enabling organizations to create policies that enforce application usage and protect against data exfiltration.
Palo Alto VM Review
What do you like best about the product?
It is Next Gen Firewall and is very powerful to stop the attacks and the GUI is also very user friendly.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes the complexity of configuring the rules.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
As it is next-gen firewall, the main problem it solves is to stop the attacks by configuring the appropriate rules and lot of out of box rules.
I'm working on Palo Alto since 4 year and have great experience on Palo Alto. Palo Alto is easy to
What do you like best about the product?
Overall, Palo Alto is excellent, but I like the Zone-based policy, which is very easy to create. TAC Support is very lovely.
What do you dislike about the product?
Palo Alto is a bit expensive, but it beats the higher device available in the market regarding performance.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It helps to solve all problems like expanding the ram & control the data plane and management plane separately.
A short Note on VM-Series Palo Alto
What do you like best about the product?
What makes VM-Series different from physical series is its scalability. We can scale the firewall as per our needs. We can deploy VM-Series just like physical ones.
What do you dislike about the product?
My overall experience with VM-Series is excellent; It is a virtual firewall, and it doesn't have any physical port, so while deploying it, we have to be very logical.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
My main problem was related to cost; you can save cost by deploying a VM-Series of firewall in your network. You can scale the firewall as per your needs. You can assign memory, CPU interface as per your requirements.
I have share my experiance about this and also describe issues which i have face on daily basis.
What do you like best about the product?
The best thing of Palo Alto VM is that we can spin the firewall on many servers like Hyper-v ESXI-server, AWS, Azure, GCP etc. also we have not faced difficulty during troubleshooting and have no dependency on wires so we can easily take console or CLI access through a browser.
What do you dislike about the product?
The most disliked issue which I faced was that if you have reset the VM firewall then you lost the license as well as serial number.
If you don't remember the serial number of the firewall then you can not reterive the license directly from the firewall so either you find the serial number or check from the Palo Alto support portal.
If you don't remember the serial number of the firewall then you can not reterive the license directly from the firewall so either you find the serial number or check from the Palo Alto support portal.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
VM-Series firewall resolves my Hardware based dependency. Now I don't care about the wiring and cabling part.
Also, VM-Series firewalls are cheaper than hardware base and easy to take care.
Also, VM-Series firewalls are cheaper than hardware base and easy to take care.
I've been using Palo Alto VM version and it is fast and easy to backup since it is on cloud.
What do you like best about the product?
VM state is easy to backup. Also the access experience is very fast.
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing at the moment that I dislike about Palo Alto VM version
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Accessibility and Backup.
The best firewall solution for any and all networks.. Period!!!
What do you like best about the product?
The diversity and the options that it gives and the integration with all other encrypted software are remarkable.
What do you dislike about the product?
There is really nothing much to dislike, but if i have to write, I would say the complex interface that can get you lost sometimes.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The network security that we need for our intranet and internet are all taken care by this gem of a software
Palo Alto VM-Series Firewalls
What do you like best about the product?
Palo Alto VM-Series Firewalls is a widely used firewall, especially in the public cloud environment. I have done multiple deployments for various customers in Qatar with high customer satisfaction
What do you dislike about the product?
They can improve their XFF feature compatibility with HA deployment scenarios. Apart from this, this is one of the best in the market now.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
public Cloud services protection, various use cases for clients as I work for a systems integrator. They have realized many different benefits, including consolidation of services, the greater granularity of inspection at the edge and in the data center, etc.
Best secure firewall in VM series
What do you like best about the product?
1. Installation of VM is simple with a single ovf file
2. Initial configuration is simple via management interface in VM.
3. Lot of security features and anti-spam profiles are available.
4. High availability (HA) works perfectly as same as physical firewalls.
2. Initial configuration is simple via management interface in VM.
3. Lot of security features and anti-spam profiles are available.
4. High availability (HA) works perfectly as same as physical firewalls.
What do you dislike about the product?
1. Factory resetting is not easy through GUI.
2. Saving the configuration changes takes time.
3. Configuration of some security profiles is a long process.
2. Saving the configuration changes takes time.
3. Configuration of some security profiles is a long process.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We have installed Palo Alto VM in Vmware Esxi, where all the servers are installed. With the help of Palo Alto, we are solving the following
1. Configuring appropriate security policies to protect internal servers.
2. Configuring VPN profiles to access the servers from the internet.
3. Configuring the Antivirus and Antispoof profile to protect servers from brute force and exploitation attacks.
1. Configuring appropriate security policies to protect internal servers.
2. Configuring VPN profiles to access the servers from the internet.
3. Configuring the Antivirus and Antispoof profile to protect servers from brute force and exploitation attacks.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
best suited for protecting virtual environment servers.
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