The physical PA-5220 coughed one last time at 2:17 AM and went silent. The VM didn't flinch. Throughput: 3.2 Gbps steady. Session table: 1.7 million active flows. CPU on the ESXi host: 34%.
Default creds: admin / admin . First rule of firewall deployment: change immediately. download pa-vm-esx-10.0.0.ova
She logged into the support portal, navigated to , and there it was: pa-vm-esx-10.0.0.ova . The physical PA-5220 coughed one last time at
set deviceconfig system ip-address 10.99.10.5 netmask 255.255.255.0 default-gateway 10.99.10.1 commit Then she opened a browser to https://10.99.10.5 . The PanOS login screen materialized like a ghost. Clean. Version 10.0.0 confirmed. Session table: 1
She wasn't just downloading a file. She was building a lifeline.
Within an hour, Maya imported a partial config from the failing physical firewall: security policies, NAT rules, SSL decryption profiles. No wildcard objects—10.0.0 handled them better than 9.x, but still had character limits.