Add Additional Disk Space to the VM-Series Firewall

Power off the VM-Series firewall.

On the ESXi server, add the virtual disk to the firewall.

Select the VM-Series firewall on the ESXi server.
Click
Edit Settings
.
Click
Add
to launch the Add Hardware wizard, and select the following options when prompted:
Select
Hard Disk
for the hardware type.
Select
Create a new virtual disk
.
Select
SCSI
as the virtual disk type.
Select the
Thick provisioning
disk format.
In the location field, select
Store with the virtual machine option
. The datastore does not have to reside on the ESXi server.
Verify that the settings look correct and click
Finish
to exit the wizard. The new disk is added to the list of devices for the virtual appliance.

Power on the firewall.

Powering on the firewall initializes the virtual disk for first-time use. The time that the initialization process takes to complete varies by the size of the new virtual disk.

When the new virtual disk is initialized and ready, PAN-OS moves all logs from the existing disk to the new virtual disk. New log entries are now written to this new virtual disk.

PAN-OS also generates a system log entry that records the new disk.



If you reuse a virtual disk that was previously used for storing PAN-OS logs, all logs from the existing disk are overwritten.

Verify the size of the new virtual disk.

Select
Device
Setup
Management
.
In the Logging and Reporting Settings section, verify that the
Log Storage
capacity accurately displays the new disk capacity.