VM-Series firewall now supports ARM based instances across KVM cloud
deployments.
To help users reduce operational costs and energy consumption in cloud
environments, VM-Series firewall now supports ARM-based instances on AWS Graviton 2(ARM compute) instances for
public clouds and KVM hypervisor for private clouds. All
features previously available in x86 environments now extend to ARM-based instances
including Hypervisor support, DPDK and other acceleration methods that provide
better performance, while reducing the operational (OPEX) costs, power consumption,
and footprints.
You can access ARM architecture support using VM-Flex licensing models on AWS BYOL or
KVM as Software NGFW credits on the following types of ARM instances:
Name
Types
AWS C6gn
8xLarge, 12xlarge, 16xlarge
AWS R6g
xlarge, 2xlarge, 4xlarge, 8xLarge, 12xlarge, and 16xlarge
AWS M6g
large, xlarge, 2xlarge, 4xlarge, 8xlarge, and 16xlarge
KVM
v8 systems such as Ampere Altra AC-106422002
Drivers
Types
KVM
i40e and mlx5
AWS
ena
ARM also supports the following capabilities:
AWS automation templates such as Cloud formation and terraform templates
AWS Gateway Load Balancer (GWLB)
64vCPU profiles
Simple and full boot-strapping on AWS
All security subscriptions currently supported in x86 based
systems
All features on KVM hypervisor currently supported on X86 based
systems
Telemetry data similar to what is currently supported on X86 based
systems
