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Set the Number of Licensed vCPUs

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Set the Number of Licensed vCPUs

Set the number vCPUs used when licensing your VM-Series firewalls.

You can specify the number of vCPUs that are licensed when using Software NGFW credits instead of licensing all the vCPUs available on your chosen compute instance. This allows you to use a larger compute instance without consuming more Software NGFW credits than necessary.

This feature requires VM-Series plugin 2.1.4 or later.

You can specify the number of vCPUs to be licensed using a bootstrap plugin op command or the VM-Series firewall CLI.

To set the number of cores when bootstrapping a VM-Series firewall, add the following command to your init-cfg.txt file.
plugin-op-commands=set-cores:<number-of-cores>
For example:
plugin-op-commands=set-cores:4
To set the number of cores on a VM-Series firewall that has already been deployed, use the following CLI command.
request plugins vm_series set-cores cores <number-of-cores>
For example:
request plugins vm_series set-cores cores 16
You must reboot the VM-Series firewall for this change to take effect.

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