How to Install Paloalto-9.0.1 Firewall in ESXi-6.5

How to Install the Palo Alto Firewall in ESXi-6.5

I have 4 VMs installed:

Let step thought the install. First, download the Palo Alto firewall image which can be found at: https://live.paloaltonetworks.com/t5/community-blogs/how-to-download-palo-alto-networks-vm-series-images/ba-p/458124 . 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:

This password also can be changed once logged thought the browser at the bottom left-hand corner.