Strata Cloud Manager and Panorama Feature Parity

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This is a comparison of the features that Strata Cloud Manager and Panorama support.

Strata Cloud Manager and Panorama both enable you to centrally manage large-scale firewall deployments. These are the features each supports.

Software

Management

Feature	Strata Cloud Manager	Panorama
Proxied Management Connection	Yes (requires internet connectivity)	Yes
Dynamic Address Groups	Yes	Yes
Dynamic User Groups	Yes	Yes
Reusable Configuration Snippets	Yes	No
Templates	No	Yes
REST API	Yes	Yes
Log Collectors	Strata Logging Service is supported by default	Yes
Application Command Center	Equivalent functionality through Activity Insights	Yes
Context Switching	No	Yes
Local Config Management	No	No
Multi-VSYS	No	Yes
PAN-OS SD-WAN	Yes	Yes
Automated VPN creation	Yes (no extra licensing required)	Requires SD-WAN license

Optimization

Feature	Strata Cloud Manager	Panorama
Policy Optimizer	Yes	No
Rule Hit Counts	Captures the number of days that the policy rule is not triggered	Yes
Unused Rules	Yes	No
Unused Objects	Yes	No

Reporting

Hardware

Feature	Strata Cloud Manager	Panorama
Gen 4 Hardware Support	Yes	Yes
Gen 3 Hardware Support	Yes (requires manual Device Certificate retrieval)	Yes
Gen 2 Hardware Support	No	Yes

Cloud-Delivered Security Services

Cloud

Feature	Strata Cloud Manager	Panorama
Cloud Provider Tag Harvesting	Yes	Yes

Identity

Feature	Strata Cloud Manager	Panorama
Cloud Identity Engine	Yes	Yes