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VM-Series Virtual Next-Generation Firewall - ARM (BYOL)

Palo Alto Networks | PAN-OS 11.2.3-h3

Linux/Unix, Other 11.2.3-h3 - 64-bit Amazon Machine Image (AMI)

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    Kevin B.

Palo Alto vm solution fitted perfectly to Us

  • February 19, 2025
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
I have worked with global enterprise clients using different Network VM solutions and Palo Alto worked for us for two main aspects: having PA deployed universally on all our firewalls facilated the internal management of our naas by our team and the support from PA when needed was always spot on.
What do you dislike about the product?
VM firewalls can only have 9 DP interfaces that's a limitation that this kind of product has
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
For our Naas architecture we benefited in terms of automation of the policy and device management, cost efficiency and scalability. In fact having several customers we often need to modificate policy and configuration and to rather migrate, change the architcture or install or dismiss new firewalls. So having an unique system like the PA solution is huge benefit for us.


    Afroz M.

Easy deployment to secure Cloud workloads

  • February 09, 2025
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
Well, there are many positive aspects of this virtual FW. The majority ones are - quick and easy deployment, features go beyond layer 3/4, Integration with other third-party softwares for enhanced monitoring and off course user friendly GUI.
What do you dislike about the product?
High cost is the major drawback when compared with other competitors in the market. All firewall features are not bundled being said that need licensing for some advanced features. As virtual VM it consumes high amount of resources and need a larger appliance to run VM.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
App based filtering, IDS and IPS, enhanced monitoring etc


    Packaging and Containers

New user experience for threat prevention and Logging

  • February 04, 2025
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
The WildFire analysis for detecting zero-day malware is impressive. It quickly flagged a test malware file I uploaded, and I could see real-time analysis.
What do you dislike about the product?
The syntax isn’t intuitive for a new user. The logs are detailed but lack context for beginners. I had to refer to external documentation to understand why a session was blocked
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Other firewalls struggle to detect unknown or zero-day threats that don’t have existing signatures. WildFire analyzes suspicious files in a cloud-based sandbox and generates new security signatures in real-time

In most cloud environments, security teams lack clear insights into blocked threats, making incident response slow. After enabling Threat Prevention, I saw multiple intrusion attempts targeting exposed SSH ports.
The logs showed attack patterns (e.g., brute-force attempts from suspicious IPs in Russia & China).


    Telecommunications

Overall a good experience.

  • January 25, 2025
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
Scalability:
Designed to scale from small to very large environments with flexible throughput options.
What do you dislike about the product?
Cost:
For smaller environments or those with tight budgets, this might be a significant barrier.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Security:
Threat protection, application control, URL filtering, VPN support, and much more.


    Business Supplies and Equipment

Pros and cons of Palo Alto VM-Series

  • January 21, 2025
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
Helps to have smooth communication with clouds like AWS, AZURE, Google cloud.
To maximize efficiency at more traffic situations, you can use technologies like Intelligent Traffic offload.
What do you dislike about the product?
The initial steps of setting up a VM series are difficult.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It helped to prevent data loss and data treats for different clouds.


    Anil S.

Experience

  • January 20, 2025
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
Learning more things from her had helped me
What do you dislike about the product?
I dont like anything here i am able to satify about this
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It is helping solving firewall


    Computer Hardware

My Experience using Palo Alto VM-Series

  • January 02, 2025
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
Good for for DNS security and accessing remote VPNs. Easy to set up and deploy. Nice user interface.
What do you dislike about the product?
Above average license cost. Needs more documentation and user guides. Shaky performance in Azure
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Palo Alto VM-Series is great for protecting and securing projects that use Amazon Web Services.


    Ezra

Works exactly as expected

  • May 15, 2024
  • Review verified by AWS Marketplace

Like for like VS the x86 counterpart, this works seamlessly. Providing you're on 11.1+, swapping out x86 for Arm is easy and the exact same launch parameters work as expected (i.e. Bootstrapping is the same). I've seen zero issues in our production environment and the infra bill is much cheaper! go Arm!

There are one or two bugs relating to configuration sizes (at this time) with Panorama integration but this does not affect the firewall performance. Otherwise, this is great.


    Nebi T.

Review of Palo Alto VM series on Azure, Azure VMware services, Equinix Edge, Equinix Metal

  • March 30, 2023
  • Review verified by G2

What do you like best about the product?
Palo Alto is leader in Firewall industry and continues to grow.
What do you dislike about the product?
Interface can be made simple and get easy.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Deploying in private and Public clouds


    Bhupender Y.

I have share my experiance about this and also describe issues which i have face on daily basis.

  • August 02, 2022
  • Review verified by G2

What do you like best about the product?
The best thing of Palo Alto VM is that we can spin the firewall on many servers like Hyper-v ESXI-server, AWS, Azure, GCP etc. also we have not faced difficulty during troubleshooting and have no dependency on wires so we can easily take console or CLI access through a browser.
What do you dislike about the product?
The most disliked issue which I faced was that if you have reset the VM firewall then you lost the license as well as serial number.
If you don't remember the serial number of the firewall then you can not reterive the license directly from the firewall so either you find the serial number or check from the Palo Alto support portal.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
VM-Series firewall resolves my Hardware based dependency. Now I don't care about the wiring and cabling part.
Also, VM-Series firewalls are cheaper than hardware base and easy to take care.