Use vMotion to move an existing VM-Series firewall to another ESXi host.
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To maintain traffic flow while using vMotion to move your VM-Series firewall between
ESXi hosts with homogeneous CPU configurations in VMware NSX-T, you must use the
PAN-OS CLI to pause the internal heartbeat monitoring of the VM-Series firewall
during vMotion. You can specify the amount of time, in minutes, that heartbeat
monitoring is paused. Heartbeat monitoring can be paused for up to 60 minutes. When
the pause interval expires or you deliberately end the pause interval, heartbeat
monitoring resumes.
vMotion of the VM-Series firewall is supported on vSphere 6.5, 6.7, and 7.0 if the
ESXi hosts have homogeneous CPU configuration.
This procedure is not required when using vMotion to move the VM-Series firewall
if you are running vSphere 7.0 or later.
