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    4. Set Up the VM-Series Firewall on KVM
    5. Install the VM-Series Firewall on KVM
    6. Install the VM-Series Firewall Using Virt-Manager
    7. Provision the VM-Series Firewall on a KVM Host

    Provision the VM-Series Firewall on a KVM Host

    Use the following instructions to provision the KVM host for the VM-Series firewall.
    1. Create a new virtual machine and add the VM-Series Firewall for KVM image to virt-mgr.
      1. On the Virt-manager, select
        Create a new virtual machine
        .
      2. Add a descriptive
        Name
         for the VM-Series firewall.
      3. Select
        Import existing disk image
        , browse to the image, and set the
        OS Type
        : Linux and
        Version
        : Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
        If you prefer, you can leave the OS Type and Version as Generic.
      4. To add network adapters for the data interfaces:
    2. Configure the memory and CPU settings.
      1. Set the
        Memory
         to the minimum memory based on the VM-Series System Requirements of your VM-Series model.
      2. Set
        CPU
         to the minimum CPUs based on the VM-Series System Requirements of your VM-Series model.
    3. Enable configuration customization and select the management interface bridge.
      1. Select
        Customize configuration before install
        .
      2. Under Advanced options, select the bridge for the management interface, and accept the default settings.
    4. Configure virtual disk settings.
      1. Select
        Disk
        , expand Advanced options and select
        Storage format
         — qcow2;
        Disk Bus
        —Virtio or IDE, based on your set up.
        If you want to use a SCSI disk bus, see Enable the Use of a SCSI Controller.
      2. Expand Performance options, and set
        Cache mode
         to
        writethrough
        . This setting improves installation time and execution speed on the VM-Series firewall.
    5. Configure network adapters.
      1. Select
        Add Hardware
         >
        Network
         if you are using a software bridge such as the Linux bridge or the Open vSwitch.
      2. For
        Host Device
        , enter the name of the bridge or select it from the drop down list.
      3. To specify the driver, set
        Device Model
         to e-1000 or virtio. These are the only supported virtual interface types.
      4. Select
        Add Hardware
         >
        PCI Host Device
         for PCI-passthrough or an SR-IOV capable device.
      5. In the
        Host Device
         list, select the interface on the card or the virtual function.
      6. Click
        Apply
         or
        Finish
        .
    6. Click
      Begin Installation
       . Wait 5-7 minutes for the installation to complete.
      By default, the XML template for the VM-Series firewall is created and stored at etc/libvirt/qemu.
    7. (
      Optional
      ) Bootstrap the VM-Series firewall
      If you are using bootstrapping to perform the configuration of your VM-Series firewall on KVM, refer to Bootstrap the VM-Series Firewall on KVM. For more information about bootstrapping, see Bootstrap the VM-Series Firewall.
    8. Configure the network access settings for the management interface.
      1. Open a connection to the console.
      2. Log into the firewall with username/password: admin/admin.
      3. Enter configuration mode with the following command:
        configure
      4. Use the following commands to configure the management interface:
        1. set deviceconfig system type static
        2. set deviceconfig system ip-address 
          <Firewall-IP>
           netmask 
          <netmask>
           default-gateway 
          <gateway-IP>
           dns-setting servers primary 
          <DNS-IP>
          where
          <Firewall-IP>
           is the IP address you want to assign to the management interface,
          <netmask>
           is the subnet mask,
          <gateway-IP>
           is the IP address of the network gateway, and
          <DNS-IP>
           is the IP address of the DNS server.
        3. commit
    9. Verify which ports on the host are mapped to the interfaces on the VM-Series firewall. In order to verify the order of interfaces on the Linux host, see Verify PCI-ID for Ordering of Network Interfaces on the VM-Series Firewall.
      To make sure that traffic is handled by the correct interface, use the following command to identify which ports on the host are mapped to the ports on the VM-Series firewall.
      admin@PAN-VM> 
      debug show vm-series interfaces all
       
Phoenix_interface    Base-OS_port       Base-OS_MAC PCI-ID 
 mgt                          eth0          52:54:00:d7:91:52 0000:00:03.0 
 Ethernet1/1             eth1          52:54:00:fe:8c:80 0000:00:06.0 
 Ethernet1/2             eth2          0e:c6:6b:b4:72:06 0000:00:07.0 
 Ethernet1/3             eth3          06:1b:a5:7e:a5:78 0000:00:08.0 
 Ethernet1/4             eth4          26:a9:26:54:27:a1 0000:00:09.0 
 Ethernet1/5             eth5          52:54:00:f4:62:13 0000:00:10.0
    10. Access the web interface of the VM-Series firewall and configure the interfaces and define security rules and NAT rules to safely enable the applications that you want to secure.

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