VM-Series Plugin and Panorama Plugins
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- Features Introduced in Zero Touch Provisioning 2.0
- Known Issues in the Zero Touch Provisioning 2.0.4 Release
- Known Issues in the Zero Touch Provisioning 2.0.3 Release
- Known Issues in the Zero Touch Provisioning 2.0.2 Release
- Known Issues in the Zero Touch Provisioning 2.0.1 Release
- Known Issues in the Zero Touch Provisioning 2.0.0 Release
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VM-Series Plugin and Panorama Plugins
Learn the difference between the VM-Series plugin and
Panorama plugins.
What is the difference between the VM-Series
Plugin and various plugins for Panorama?
The VM-Series Plugin is for the VM-Series firewalls,
and is a single plugin that enables integration with public cloud
environments such as Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Azure and AWS,
and private cloud hypervisors such as KVM, ESXi and others. When
you deploy the firewall, the built-in plugin automatically detects
the virtual environment on which the firewall is deployed and loads
up the plugin components that enable you to manage interactions
with that cloud environment. For example, when you deploy the VM-Series
firewall on GCP, the VM-Series firewall loads the plugin components
that enable the integration with GCP. You can then use the VM-Series
plugin to configure the VM-Series firewall on GCP to publish metrics
to Google Stackdriver Monitoring.
Similarly, the VM-Series plugin on the VM-Series firewall on Azure
enables you to configure the firewall to publish metrics Azure Application Insights or set up the
details that the firewalls need to function as an HA pair. The VM-Series
Plugin is pre-installed on the VM-Series firewall, and you can upgrade or
downgrade but cannot delete it. On Panorama the VM-Series plugin
is available but it is not pre-installed. If you choose to use Panorama
to manage the integrations on your firewalls, install the VM-Series
plugin on Panorama to establish communication with the VM-Series
plugin on your firewalls.
The Panorama plugins are for both hardware-based firewalls and the VM-Series
firewalls. Since Panorama plugins are optional, you can add, remove, reinstall, or
upgrade them on Panorama. The Panorama plugin is not built-in, and you must install the
plugin to enable communication with the managing the environment you need. For example,
you use the Cloud Services plugin on Panorama to enable the set up between the
Panorama/firewalls and the strata-logging-service. The GCP plugin on Panorama enables communication between Panorama and your GCP
deployment so that you can secure traffic entering or exiting a service deployed in a
Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) cluster.