: 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.
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 that were available in x86 environments are now extended 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.
ARM architecture support is currently available on VM-Flex licensing models on AWS BYOL or KVM as Software NGFW credits on the following types of ARM instances:
Name
Types
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
Types
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

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