How to Install the Palo Alto Firewall in ESXi-6.5
I have 4 VMs installed:
- EVE-NG
- Windows 10
- Ubuntu 22.04
- Paloalto-9.0.1 Firewall
Login to ESXi
Let step thought the install. First, download the Palo Alto firewall image which can be found at: http://dl.nextadmin.net/dl2/PaloAlto/. Since this is a tar extension file, you’ll need to unpack it.
PA-VM-ESX-9.0.1.tar
To unpack in Linux, path to the folder where file resigns by opening terminal, in my case, it’s Downloads and type the following command:
tar –xvf PA-VM-ESX-9.0.1.tar.
It will unpack in the same directory.
To unpack in Windows, path to the folder where file resides, in my case, it’s Downloads and type the following command:
tar -xvzf C:\tar\PA-VM-ESX-9.0.1.tar -C C:\tar\.
Notice you will need to also include the destination in the command for Windows. I also created in C:\tar folder for this purpose.
Now, we can continue with the firewall installation:
Name and path to files:
Images selected:
Select datastore:
Start Palo Alto VM
Once Firewall is fully loaded, you need to wait about 10 minutes before logging in. The default credentials are:
Username: admin
Password: admin
Also during the 10 minutes, the DHCP server should assign an IP address. A similar screen should appear:
With a successful login:
Now, logging in to CLI will place you in the operational mode | admin@PA-VM>. You can change the password by the following commands:
admin@PA-VM>configure
admin@PA-VM#set mgt-config users admin password
Enter new password twice and type commit.
admin@PA-VM#commit (Enter)
Test reachability to Default Gateway:
Login to firewall:
This password also can be changed once logged thought the browser at the bottom left-hand corner.
