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Deploy Panorama Virtual Appliances with Local Log Collectors
You can configure firewalls to send logs to
a Log Collector that runs locally on a Panorama virtual appliance
in Panorama mode. In a high availability (HA) configuration, each Panorama
HA peer can have a local Log Collector. You can assign the local
Log Collectors on the HA peers to the same Collector Group or to
separate Collector Groups, as illustrated in the following figures.
Deploying the Panorama virtual appliance with local Log Collectors
suits firewall management within a VMware virtual infrastructure
in which Panorama processes up to 10,000 logs per second.
The Panorama virtual appliance cannot be
a Dedicated Log Collector. However, if the logging rate increases
beyond 10,000 logs per second, you can use the virtual appliance
to manage Dedicated Log Collectors as described in Deploy Panorama with Dedicated Log Collectors. Such an expansion might require reassigning firewalls from the
local Log Collectors to Dedicated Log Collectors.
If you will
assign more than one Log Collector to a Collector Group, see Caveats for a Collector Group with Multiple Log Collectors to understand the requirements, risks, and recommended mitigations.
Single Log Collector Per Collector Group

Multiple Log Collectors Per Collector Group

Perform
the following steps to deploy Panorama with local Log Collectors.
Skip any steps you have already performed (such as the initial setup).
- Perform the initial setup of each Panorama virtual appliance.
- Install Panorama on an ESXi Server. You must configure the following resources to ensure the virtual appliance starts in Panorama mode:
- System disk with exactly 81GB of storage.
- CPUs and memory that are sufficient for the quantity of logs that Panorama will receive and store.
- Virtual logging disk with 2–24TB of storage.
Panorama automatically divides the new disk into 2TB partitions, each of which will function as a separate virtual disk.
- Set up the Panorama virtual appliances in an HA configuration.
- Add a Log Collector that is local to the primary Panorama.On the primary Panorama:
- Record the Panorama serial number.
- Access the Panorama web interface.
- SelectDashboardand record theSerial #in the General Information section.
- Add the Log Collector as a managed collector.
- SelectandPanoramaManaged CollectorsAdda new Log Collector.
- In theGeneralsettings, enter the serial number (Collector S/N) you recorded for Panorama.
- ClickOKto save your changes.
- Select.CommitCommit to PanoramaThis step is required before you can add the virtual logging disks.
- Add the virtual logging disks.
- Selectand edit the Log Collector by clicking its name.PanoramaManaged CollectorsThe Log Collector name has the same value as the hostname of the primary Panorama.
- SelectDisksandAddthe virtual logging disks.
- ClickOKto save your changes.
- Select.CommitCommit to Panorama
- Add a Log Collector that is local to the secondary Panorama.Panorama treats this Log Collector as remote because it does not run locally on the primary Panorama.
- Record the serial number of the secondary Panorama.
- Access the web interface of the secondary Panorama.
- SelectDashboardand record theSerial #in the General Information section.
- Access the web interface of the primary Panorama.
- SelectandPanoramaManaged CollectorsAddthe Log Collector.
- In theGeneralsettings, enter the serial number (Collector S/N) you recorded for the secondary Panorama.
- Enter the IP address or FQDN of the primary and secondary Panorama HA peers in thePanorama Server IPfield andPanorama Server IP 2field respectively.
- ClickOKto save your changes to the Log Collector.
- SelectandCommitCommit to PanoramaCommityour changes.This step is required before you can add the virtual logging disks.
- Edit the Log Collector by clicking its name.The Log Collector name has the same value as the hostname of the secondary Panorama.
- SelectDisks,Addthe virtual logging disks, and clickOK.
- SelectandCommitCommit to PanoramaCommityour changes.
- Use the primary Panorama to perform this task for each firewall that will forward logs to the Log Collectors.
- Configure the Collector Group.Perform this step once if you will assign both Log Collectors to the same Collector Group. Otherwise, configure a Collector Group for each Log Collector.On the primary Panorama:
- SelectandPanoramaCollector GroupsAdda Collector Group.
- Addone or both Log Collectors as Collector Group Members.In any single Collector Group, all the Log Collectors must run on the same Panorama model: all M-500 appliances, all M-100 appliances, or all Panorama virtual appliances.
- (Best Practice)Enable log redundancy across collectorsif you add multiple Log Collectors to a single Collector group. This option requires each Log Collector to have the same number of virtual logging disks.Enabling redundancy doubles the amount of logs and log processing traffic in a Collector Group. If necessary, Expand Log Storage Capacity on the Panorama Virtual Appliance.
- SelectDevice Log Forwardingand configure the Log Forwarding Preferences list. This list defines which firewalls forward logs to which Log Collectors. Assign firewalls according to the number of Log Collectors in this Collector Group:
- Single—Assign the firewalls that will forward logs to the Log Collector that is local to the primary Panorama, as illustrated in Figure 1.
- Multiple—Assign each firewall to both Log Collectors for redundancy. When you configure the preference list, make Log Collector 1 the first priority for half the firewalls and make Log Collector 2 the first priority for the other half, as illustrated in Figure 2.
- ClickOKto save your changes.
- Selectand thenCommitCommit and PushCommit and Pushyour changes to Panorama and the Collector Groups you added.
- Trigger failover on the primary Panorama so that the secondary Panorama becomes active.On the primary Panorama:
- Select.PanoramaHigh Availability
- ClickSuspend local Panoramain the Operational Commands section.
- Configure the connection from the secondary Panorama to the Log Collector that is local to the primary Panorama.On the secondary Panorama:
- In the Panorama web interface, selectand select the Log Collector that is local to the primary Panorama.PanoramaManaged Collectors
- Enter the IP address or FQDN of the secondary Panorama in thePanorama Server IPfield and the IP address or FQDN of the primary Panorama in thePanorama Server IP 2field.
- ClickOKto save your changes.
- Selectand thenCommitCommit and PushCommit and Pushyour changes to Panorama and the Collector Groups.
- Trigger fail-back on the secondary Panorama so that the primary Panorama becomes active.On the secondary Panorama:
- Select.PanoramaHigh Availability
- ClickSuspend local Panoramain the Operational Commands section.
- Configure log forwarding from the firewalls to Panorama.On the primary Panorama to:
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