How to change from "management-only" mode to "panorama" for Panorama deployed in Azure

• Panorama VM deployed in Azure
• Supported PAN-OS
• management mode ( can be verified by using show system info | match mode)

Note:. The VM must have 8 cores and 16 GB RAM to change the mode.

The first part of the article deals with adding a disk to Panorama is also explained in the documentation. The panorama mode requires additional disk space.

1. Create 2 TB Disk Volume. (Click on VM > Disks > Add data disk)

2. Attach the disk of 2 TB (Expand the list under Name  > Click on Create Disk)

3. Enter "Disk name", Change size from 1024 GB to 2048 GB, Click OK  and click on Create.

4. Change Host caching from "None" to "Read/write"  and  Click on Save.

5. System disk and newly attached 2 TB disks should be seen.

6. Login to Panorama-VM via CLI

7. Run command "show system disk details" to verify if the disk has been detected by the VM.
If the disk is not detected, then there must be an error to follow first 7 steps. please perform the instructions again.

panorama> show system disk details
Name   : sdc
State  : Present
Size   : 2097152 MB 
Status : Unavailable
Reason : Admin disabled

8. Run command "request system system-mode panorama" to change mode from management-only to panorama.

panorama> request system system-mode panorama
Broadcast message from root (Fri Dec 27 12:48:27 2019):
Initializing the log buffer disk; please wait...

9. panorama-VM would boot after couple of minutes with panorama mode.

panorama> show system info | match mode
model: Panorama
cloud-mode: cloud
vm-mode: Microsoft Azure
system-mode: panorama
operational-mode: normal

10. To add more disks to Panorama-VM, please repeat steps 1,2,3,4,5.
 

To check the mode, use the following command.

panorama> show system info | match mode
model: Panorama
cloud-mode: cloud
vm-mode: Microsoft Azure
system-mode: management-only
operational-mode: normal