Resources and Capacity Management

Question 1

Starting at PAN-OS 10.2, VM-Series and CN-Series firewalls support a maximum of how many data plane cores?

Answer 1

47

Question 2

Beginning with PAN-OS 10.2, the maximum number of sessions supported on an individual VM-Series firewall scales with what?

Answer 2

amount of memory allocated to the VM-Series instance

Question 3

Are memory increments locked in place in Flex Memory?

Answer 3

no - can increase the amount of memory as needed for your environment

Question 4

For memory scaling, increments of memory that represent the configuration capacity of the VM-Series firewall are grouped into how many tiers?

Answer 4

four

Question 5

What determines the limit for non-session values, such as security rules, address objects, security profiles, etc?

Answer 5

the tier allocated amount of memory falls into

Question 6

What is discrete sizing?

Answer 6

vendor determines the increments

Question 7

What is continuous sizing?

Answer 7

customer determines their own increments