Or more specifically, where to go to download. The discussion that we want to call attention to is: How to download Palo Alto VM?Įven though the discussion led to the information about how to obtain trail licenses, no one ever truly answered the actual HOW question. This was a discussion that I talked about in April 2021, but since this is still a high-volume search on LIVEcommunity, I wanted to re-visit and update this so everyone can have all of the information needed to obtain a VM-Series image as easily as possible. On the Device > Licenses tab, verify that the PA-VM license was added to the device.In this week's Discussion of the Week, I am going to be giving a refresher on where and how to download a Palo Alto Networks VM-Series images.If it is unknown it means the device was not licensed. Log into the device and confirm that the dashboard displays a valid serial number.The license will be activated on the device and the device will reboot. Click Manually Upload License and enter the license key.Copy the license key to the machine that can access the web interface of the VM-Series firewall and navigate to Device > License tab.

This will download the VM-Series license key for the client machine.

Navigate to the My Devices tab and search for the VM-Series device just registered and click the PA-VM link.

This will complete the registration process and the serial number of the VM-Series firewall will be attached to the record on the support site.

On the Register VM popup window select the authorization file.

Click My VM-Series Auth-Codes and select the applicable auth-code from the list.

Copy the above file to a computer that has access to the internet and log into the support portal.

Click Download Authorization File to download an authorizationfile.txt file on the client machine.

Navigate to Device > Licenses and click Activate Feature using Auth Code

Access the web interface of the firewall.

Steps to activate a license for a Palo Alto Networks VM-Series firewall installed on an ESXi server that does not have direct internet access.

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