Add a Virtual Disk to Panorama on Azure

Log in to the Microsoft Azure portal.
Add a virtual logging disk to Panorama.
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.
In the Azure Dashboard, select the Panorama

Virtual Machines

to which you want to add a logging disk.

Select

Disks

.

+Add data disk

.

In the drop-down for the new disk,

Create disk

.



Configure the logging disk.

Enter the disk

Name

.

Select the Resource group. If you

Create new

resource groups, enter the group name.

Verify the

Account type

(this field is automatically populated).

In the

Source type

drop-down, select

None

.

Select

Change Size

and select a 2048 GiB logging disk.

Create

the new logging disk.



For the

Host caching

, select

Read/write

.


Enable each disk.
The following example uses the sdc virtual disk.
Log in to the Panorama CLI.
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
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.
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
.
Make disks available for logging.
Log in to the Panorama web interface.
Edit a Log Collector (
Panorama
Managed Collectors
)
Select
Disks
and
Add
each newly added disk.
Click
OK
.
Select
Commit
Commit to Panorama
.
For Panorama in an Active/Passive high availability (HA) configuration, wait for HA sync to complete before continuing.
Select
Commit
Push to Devices
and push the changes to the Collector Group the Log Collector belongs to.
(
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 6.
Configure a Collector Group.
Configure Log Forwarding to Panorama.
Verify that the Panorama Log Storage capacity is increased.
Log in to the Panorama web interface.
Select the Collector Group to which the Panorama virtual appliance belongs (
Panorama
Collector Groups
).
Verify that the
Log Storage
capacity accurately displays the disk capacity.