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    3. Panorama Administrator's Guide
    4. Set Up Panorama
    5. Set Up the Panorama Virtual Appliance
    6. Expand Log Storage Capacity on the Panorama Virtual Appliance
    7. Add a Virtual Disk to Panorama on Hyper-V

    Add a Virtual Disk to Panorama on Hyper-V

    Add a virtual logging disk to Panorama™ in Panorama or Log Collector mode on Hyper-V.
    After you Install Panorama on Hyper-V, add virtual logging disks to the Panorama™ virtual appliance instance to provide storage for logs generated by managed firewalls. You can add virtual disks to a local log Collector for a Panorama virtual appliance in Panorama mode or for a Dedicated Log Collector. The Panorama virtual appliance on Hyper-V supports only 2TB logging disks and, in total, supports up to 24TB of log storage. You cannot add a logging disk smaller than 2TB or a logging disk of a size that is not evenly divisible by 2TB because the Panorama virtual appliance partitions logging disks in to 2TB partitions. For example, if you attach a 4TB logging disk, Panorama will create two 2TB partitions. However, you cannot add a 5TB logging disk because the leftover 1TB is not supported as a partition.
    1. Power off the Panorama virtual appliance.
      1. On the Hyper-V Manager, select the Panorama virtual appliance instance from the list of
        Virtual Machines
        .
      2. Select
        Action
        Turn Off
         to power off the Panorama virtual appliance.
    2. Add the virtual logging disk. Repeat this step as many times as needed.
      In all modes, the first logging disk on the Panorama VM must be at least 2TB in order to add additional disks. If the first logging disk is smaller than 2TB, you will be unable to add additional disk space.
      1. Select the Panorama virtual appliance from the list of
        Virtual Machines
        , and select
        Action
        Settings
        .
      2. In the
        Hardware
         list, select
        IDE Controller 0
        .
      3. From the
        IDE Controller
         drives list, select
        Hard Drive
         and
        Add
         the new virtual logging disk.
      4. Select the new
        Hard Drive
         created under
        IDE Controller 0
        .
      5. Under
        Media
        , add a
        New
         hard disk.
    3. Configure the new virtual logging disk.
      1. If you see the Before You Begin prompt, click
        Next
         to begin adding the virtual logging disk
      2. For the Disk Format, select
        VHDX
        . Click
        Next
         to continue
      3. For the Disk Type, select
        Fixed Size
         or
        Dynamically Expanding
         based on your needs. Click
        Next
         to continue.
      4. Specify the
        Name
         and
        Location
         for the virtual logging disk file. Click
        Next
         to continue.
      5. To configure the disk, select
        Create a new virtual hard disk
         and enter the disk size. Click
        Next
         to continue.
      6. Review the Summary and
        Finish
         adding the virtual hard logging disk.
      7. Apply
         the new hard disk addition.
    4. Power on the Panorama virtual appliance.
      1. Select the Panorama virtual appliance instance from the list of
        Virtual Machines
        .
      2. Select
        Action
        Start
         to power on the Panorama virtual appliance.
    5. Configure each disk.
      The following example uses the sdc virtual disk.
      2. Enter the following command to view the disks on the Panorama virtual appliance:
        show system disk details
        The user will see the following response:
        	Name
: sdb 
	State : Present 
	Size : 2048000 MB 
	Status : Available 
	Reason : Admin enabled 
	Name : sdc 
	State : Present 
	Size : 2048000 MB 
	Status : Available 
	Reason : Admin disabled
      3. Enter the following command and confirm the request when prompted for all disks with the
        Reason : Admin disabled
         response:
        request system disk add sdc
        The
        request system disk add
         command is not available on a Panorama management server in Management Only mode because logging is not supported in this mode. If you do not see the command, Set up a Panorama Virtual Appliance in Panorama Mode to enable the logging disks. Once in Panorama mode, Log in to the Panorama CLI and continue to Step 4 to verify the disk addition.
      4. Enter the
        show system disk details
         command to verify the status of the disk addition. Continue to the next step when all newly added disk responses display
        Reason : Admin enabled
        .
    6. Make disks available for logging.
      1. Log in to the Panorama web interface.
      2. Edit a Log Collector (
        Panorama
        Managed Collectors
        ).
      3. Select
        Disks
         and
        Add
         each newly added disk.
      4. Click
        OK
        .
      5. Select
        Commit
        Commit to Panorama
        .
        For Panorama in an Active/Passive high availability (HA) configuration, wait for HA sync to complete before continuing.
      6. Select
        Commit
        Push to Devices
         and push the changes to the Collector Group the Log Collector belongs to.
    7. (
      New Panorama deployments in Panorama mode only
      ) Configure Panorama to receive logs.
      If you are adding logging disks to an existing Panorama virtual appliance, skip to Step 8.
    8. Verify that the Panorama Log Storage capacity is increased.
      1. Log in to the Panorama web interface.
      2. Select the Collector Group to which the Panorama virtual appliance belongs (
        Panorama
        Collector Groups
        ).
      3. Verify that the
        Log Storage
         capacity accurately displays the disk capacity.

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