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Tips for Deploying Palo Alto Networks’ VM-Series Firewall with VMware NSX

Chris Wahl of Wahl Network comments:

I’ve had the opportunity to deploy a few instances of Palo Alto Network’s Panorama and VM-Series firewall into VMware NSX environments. On the whole, it’s a rather straight forward process with some deep documentation provided by the folks at Palo Alto Networks (PAN). However, they have to rely upon the code / APIs provided by someone else (VMware), meaning there are bound to be things that don’t work quite as you might imagine.

Palo Alto is the most popular option when deploying a firewall/security device with NSX. Let Chris guide you through what to do in order to save you from pain you don’t need.

This post will cover a few gotchas that have caused me grief in the past.
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Tom Hollingsworth

Tom Hollingsworth is a networking professional, blogger, and speaker on advanced technology topics. He is also an organizer for networking and wireless for Tech Field Day.  His blog can be found at https://networkingnerd.net/

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