VM-Series firewall now supports ARM based instances across KVM cloud
deployments.
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 that were available in x86 environments are now extended 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.
ARM architecture support is currently available on 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
