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PA-5200 Series Next-Gen Firewall Hardware Reference

Upgrade/Downgrade Considerations for Firewalls and Appliances

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Upgrade/Downgrade Considerations for Firewalls and Appliances

Upgrade/downgrade considerations for firewalls and appliances.

The following table lists all hardware features that have upgrade or downgrade impact. Make sure you understand all upgrade/downgrade considerations before you upgrade or downgrade from the specified version of PAN-OS.

Feature	Release	Upgrade Considerations	Downgrade Considerations
PA-7000 Log Forwarding Card (LFC)	10.0	If you are using an LFC with a PA-7000 Series Firewall, when you upgrade to PAN-OS 10.0, you must configure the management plane or dataplane interface for the service route because the LFC ports do not support the requirements for the service route. We recommend using the dataplane interface for the Data Services service route.	n/a
Upgrading a PA-7000 Series Firewall with a first generation switch management card (PA-7050-SMC or PA-7080-SMC)	PAN-OS 8.0 and later	Before upgrading the firewall, run the following CLI command to check the flash drive’s status: debug system disk-smart-info disk-1. If the value for attribute ID #232, Available_Reservd_Space 0x0000, is greater than 20, then proceed with the upgrade. If the value is less than 20, then contact support for assistance.	Before downgrading the firewall, run the following CLI command to check the flash drive’s status: debug system disk-smart-info disk-1. If the value for attribute ID #232, Available_Reservd_Space 0x0000, is greater than 20, then proceed with the downgrade. If the value is less than 20, then contact support for assistance.

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