Add Additional Disk Space to the VM-Series Firewall deployed in Azure Cloud

Add Additional Disk Space to the VM-Series Firewall deployed in Azure Cloud

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Created On 01/25/21 22:40 PM - Last Modified 03/10/21 21:25 PM


Objective


The VM-Series firewall requires a 60GB virtual disk, of which 21GB is used for logging, by default. If this 21GB is not enough, one can add a new virtual disk to increase log storage capacity.  This task is described below.

Environment


  • VM Series Firewall.
  • Any PAN-OS.
  • Azure Cloud.


Procedure


  1. In  Azure Dashboard, select the FW Virtual Machine to which you want to add a logging disk for.
  2. Stop the VM-Series firewall.
  3. Select Disks.
  4. Select Create and attach a new disk.
  5. Fill in the details as the following example:​​​​​​
       Logging disk config example
  1. Select Save.
  2. Start the firewall.
 

Verification: 

  1. The output of "show system disk-space" shows that the new logging partition is using the new disk:
admin@fw01> show system disk-space 

Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/root       7.0G  3.1G  3.6G  47% /
none            6.9G   92K  6.9G   1% /dev
/dev/sda5        16G  991M   15G   7% /opt/pancfg
/dev/sda6       8.0G  1.4G  6.2G  19% /opt/panrepo
tmpfs           4.8G  4.2G  645M  87% /dev/shm
/dev/sdc1        99G  194M   94G   1% /opt/panlogs
tmpfs            12M     0   12M   0% /opt/pancfg/mgmt/lcaas/ssl/private
    1. PAN-OS generates a system log entry that records the new disk:    
    System log entry
     


    Additional Information


    Sizing for the VM-Series on Microsoft Azure
     


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