Deploy the VM-Series Firewall

Log in to NSX-T Manager.
Select
Advanced Networking & Security
Partner Services
Catalog
.
Select the
Registered Service
that matches the service definition to be deployed.
Select the VM-Series firewall image from the drop-down in the Registered Service entry.

Click
Deploy
under the registered service for the service definition you want to use to launch the firewall.
Click
Proceed
.
Enter the Partner Service details. This information tells NSX-T Manager which Partner Service and logical router to use when deploying the VM-Series firewall.
Enter a descriptive

Instance Name

for your VM-Series firewall.

NSX-T Manager prepopulates the

Partner Service

field. Selecting a Partner Service populates the

Deployment Specification

field.

Select the

Logical Router

. Select a tier-0 or tier-1 router. NSX-T Manager attaches the VM-Series firewall to the selected router and redirects traffic passing through that router to the VM-Series firewall for inspection. You must select a router with no service insertion attached.

Click

Next

.


Configure resource and storage settings.
Select a

Compute Manager

. The compute manager is the vCenter server managing your datacenter.

Select a

Cluster

. You can deploy the VM-Series firewall on any cluster that does not include any Edge Transport Nodes.

(

Optional

) Select the Resource Pool if you have created any on vCenter server.

Select a

Datastore

.



Select the

Deployment Mode

for your VM-Series firewall—Standalone or High Availability.

Set the

Failure Policy

to Allow or Block. The failure policy defines how NSX-T Manager handles traffic that is directed to the VM-Series firewall if the firewall becomes unavailable.

Enter the

IP Address

,

Gateway

,

Subnet Mask

, and

Network ID

for the VM-Series firewall management port.

If you are deploying the VM-Series firewall in HA mode, repeat the previous step for secondary firewall instance.

Click

Next

.


Click on the
Deployment Template
field and select a deployment template. Choosing a deployment template automatically populates the template properties.
Do not edit the Template Property settings
.

Click
Finish
to deploy the VM-Series firewall.
Access the Panorama web interface to make sure that the VM-Series firewalls are connected and synchronized with Panorama.
Select
Panorama
Managed Devices
to verify that the firewalls are connected and synchronized.
If the firewall gets its IP address from an IP Pool, the
Display Name
for the firewall includes the hostname of the ESXi server on which it is deployed, for example PA-VM:ESX1.Sydney. If the firewall gets a DHCP assigned IP address, the hostname of the ESXi server does not display.
If the ESXi server hostname is longer than 32 characters, the hostname will not be displayed in Panorama. Instead, only
PA-VM
is displayed.

Click Commit, and select Commit Type as
Panorama
.
A periodic Panorama commit is required to ensure that Panorama saves the device serial numbers to configuration. If you reboot Panorama without committing the changes, the managed devices will not connect back to Panorama; although the Device Group will display the list of devices, the devices will not display in
Panorama
Managed Devices
.
Verify that the capacity license is applied and apply any additional licenses that you have purchased. At a minimum, you must activate the support license on each firewall.
When Panorama does not have internet access (Offline), you must manually license each firewall, and then add the serial number of the firewall to Panorama so that it is registered as a managed device, and can receive the template stack and device group settings from Panorama. See Activate the License for the VM-Series Firewall for VMware NSX for more information.
Select
Panorama
Device Deployment
Licenses
to verify that the VM-Series capacity license is applied.

To apply additional licenses on the VM-Series firewalls:
Click

Activate

on

Panorama

Device Deployment

Licenses

.

Find or filter for the firewall, and in the

Auth Code

column, enter the authorization code for the license to activate. Only one authorization code can be entered at a time, for each firewall.


Click
Activate
, and verify that the result of the license activation was successful.