Bootstrap the VM-Series Firewall on Azure

Set up the bootstrap package within an Azure Files service.
On the Azure portal, select or create a storage account.

Create a file share within the Azure Files service.



Create the folders within the storage account.

Createthe top-level directory structure for the bootstrap package directly in the root folder.

Add content within each folder. You can leave a folder empty but you must have all four folders in the directory. In the following screenshot, you can see that the

config

folder has the

init-cfg.txt

file uploaded to it.


Deploy the VM-Series Firewall from the Azure Marketplace (Solution Template). When launching the firewall, select
Enable Bootstrap:Yes
and provide the information required to access the file share that holds the bootstrap files.
Storage Account Name
— This is the Azure storage account in which you created the file share for the bootstrap folders.
Storage Account Access Key
—The firewall needs this access key to authenticate to the storage account and access the files stored within. To copy this access key, select the storage account name, and then select
Setttings
Access Keys
.

File-share
—This is the file-share name to which you have uploaded the files required for bootstrapping the firewall.
Optionally, you can specify a
Share-directory
. If you have a common file share that serves as a repository for bootstrap configuration for different set ups, you can us a share-directory to be able to create a folder hierarchy and access a specific set of subfolders within the common file-share.

Verify Bootstrap Completion.