PA-7000 Series Firewall Overview
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- PA-7000 Series Power Configuration Options
- Determine PA-7000 Series Firewall Power Configuration Requirements
- Connect AC Power to a PA-7050 Firewall
- Connect DC Power to a PA-7050 Firewall
- Connect AC Power to a PA-7080 Firewall
- Connect DC Power to a PA-7080 Firewall
- View PA-7000 Series Firewall Power Statistics
- Connect Cables to a PA-7000 Series Firewall
- Install the PA-7080 Firewall EMI Filter
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- Replace a PA-7000 Series Firewall Air Filter
- Replace a PA-7000 Series SMC Boot Drive
- Replace a PA-7000 Series Firewall LPC Drive
- Re-Index the LPC Drives
- Replace a PA-7050-SMC-B or PA-7080-SMC-B Drive
- Increase the PA-7000 Series Firewall LPC Log Storage Capacity
PA-7000 Series Firewall Overview
The PA-7000 Series firewalls (PA-7050 and PA-7080) are high performance modular firewalls
designed for large enterprise and carrier class environments. These multi-blade chassis
can leverage either AC or DC power and have hot-swappable Network Processing Cards
(NPCs) to allow for expansion as needs grow. You can install up to six NPCs in the
PA-7050 firewall and up to ten NPCs in the PA-7080 firewall. These firewalls also
include a dedicated high availability (HA) control port (HA1), as well as two dedicated
80Gb QSFP HA ports for HA2 (data link) and HA3 (packet forwarding) functions. These
dedicated HA ports enable PA-7000 Series firewalls to function with full hardware
redundancy in either an active/passive or active/active configuration. Additionally, to
improve logging performance, the firewalls use a dedicated log card to handle all log
processing tasks. In PAN-OS versions 10.0 and later, you can install Data Processing
Cards (DPCs) in the same slots as the NPCs to improve the processing power of the
chassis.
First Supported PAN-OS® Software Release:
- PAN-OS 6.0—PA-7050 firewall
- PAN-OS 7.0—PA-7080 firewall
The minimum supported PAN-OS software also varies based on the
installed components. For example, if you install a PA-7000 20GQXM
NPC, the firewall must have PAN-OS 7.1 or later installed. In the
PAN-OS 9.0 release, there are also requirements to install newer
components based on the installed hardware. For example, if you
install the PA-7000-100G-NPC in a PA-7050 firewall, you must also install
the PA-7050 second-generation fan trays (PA-7050-FANTRAY-L-A (left)
and PA-7050-FANTRAY-R-A (right)). For more information on these
requirements, see PA-7000
Series Firewall Module and Interface Card Information.