Migrating from legacy license to Flex license

Migrating from legacy license to Flex license

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Created On 05/17/23 09:05 AM - Last Modified 11/19/25 19:30 PM


Environment


Any VM-firewalls.
Flexible vCPUs—Available on PAN-OS 10.0.4 and later.
 


Procedure


Considering the credits are added the the CSP(customer support portal) and deployment profile is created per the instruction in the link below.

Migrate a Firewall to a Flexible VM-Series License


1. Collect the configuration backup and tech support file from the firewall.
2. Create a administrator user name and password.
3. Commit the changes.
4. If the firewall is in HA suspend the active firewall
5.Goto->license->deactivate license. (The serial number will show unknown)(download the deactivation key**not mandatory)
6.it will prompt for reboot, do the reboot.
7.once the firewall is back, try login with the administrator user created in step 2
8.Then copy the auth code from CSP(customer support portal) and retrieve the license.
9. The firewall will automatically refresh.(the firewall will register with old serial number)
10.Check whether all the license is installed.
11.Goto-dynamic updates-->install app and threat version.
12.Check whether you are able to do the commit successfully.
 



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