ARM Support on VM-Series Firewall
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ARM Support on VM-Series Firewall

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ARM Support on VM-Series Firewall

VM-Series firewall now supports ARM based instances across KVM cloud deployments.
To help users reduce operational costs and energy consumption in cloud environments, VM-Series firewall now supports ARM-based instances on AWS Graviton 2(ARM compute) instances for public clouds and KVM hypervisor for private clouds. All features previously available in x86 environments now extend to ARM-based instances including Hypervisor support, DPDK and other acceleration methods that provide better performance, while reducing the operational (OPEX) costs, power consumption, and footprints.
You can access ARM architecture support using VM-Flex licensing models on AWS BYOL or KVM as Software NGFW credits on the following types of ARM instances:
  • ARM:
    • AWS C6gn—8xLarge, 12xlarge, 16xlarge
    • AWS R6g—xlarge, 2xlarge, 4xlarge, 8xLarge, 12xlarge, and 16xlarge
    • AWS M6g—large, xlarge, 2xlarge, 4xlarge, 8xlarge, and 16xlarge
    • KVM—v8 systems such as Ampere Altra AC-106422002
  • Drivers:
    • KVM—i40e and mlx5
    • AWS—ena
ARM also supports the following capabilities:
  • AWS automation templates such as Cloud formation and terraform templates
  • AWS Gateway Load Balancer (GWLB)
  • 64vCPU profiles
  • Simple and full boot-strapping on AWS
  • All security subscriptions currently supported in x86 based systems
  • All features on KVM hypervisor currently supported on X86 based systems
  • Telemetry data similar to what is currently supported on X86 based systems