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VM-Series System Requirements

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VM-Series System Requirements

System Requirements for VM-Series models (fixed vCPUs).

Each instance of the VM-Series firewall requires a minimum resource allocation—number of CPUs, memory, and disk space, on its host server. Use the table below to verify that you allocate the necessary hardware resources for your VM-Series model or memory profile.

VM-Series Model	Supported Hypervisors	Supported VCPUs	Minimum Memory	Minimum Memory with GTP Enabled	Minimum Hard Drive
VM-50	ESXi, Hyper-V, KVM	2	5.5GB 4.5GB in Lite mode	6GB 5GB in Lite mode	32GB (60GB at boot)
VM-100	AWS, Azure, ESXi, Google Cloud Platform, Hyper-V, KVM, OCI, IBM Cloud, Alibaba Cloud, Cisco ACI, Cisco CSP, Cisco ENCS, NSX-T (VM-100) The VM-100 on Azure requires 4 vCPUs.	2	6.5GB	7.5GB	60GB
VM-300	AWS, Azure, ESXi, Google Cloud Platform, Hyper-V, KVM, OCI, IBM Cloud, Alibaba Cloud, Cisco ACI, Cisco CSP, Cisco ENCS, NSX-T (VM-300)	2, 4	9GB*	10GB	60GB
VM-500	AWS, Azure, Cisco ACI, Cisco CSP, ESXi, Google Cloud Platform, Hyper-V, KVM, OCI, IBM Cloud, NSX-T	2, 4, 8	16GB	20GB	60GB
VM-700	AWS, Azure, ESXi, Google Cloud Platform, Hyper-V, KVM, OCI, IBM Cloud, Alibaba Cloud, Cisco ACI, Cisco CSP, NSX-T	2, 4, 8, 16	56GB	64GB	60GB

*In 10.1.X, 9 GB might be insufficient depending upon the feature set or combination of feature sets (such as GTP or high-performance features) used on the firewall. If you experience memory resource related issues, increase memory to 11 GB to accommodate the additional memory requirements of some of the features or combination of features. Alternately, you can Enable ZRAM on the VM-Series Firewall to improve memory usage.

You can enable Lite mode on the VM-50. Lite mode is an alternative operating mode for environments where resources are limited. See VM-50 Lite Mode for more information.

To achieve the best performance, all of the needed cores should be available on a single CPU socket.

For operation, the VM-50 firewall requires minimum 32GB of hard drive space. However, because the VM-Series base image is common to all models, you must allocate 60GB of hard drive space until you license the VM-50.

The number of vCPUs assigned to the management plane and those assigned to the dataplane differs depending on the total number of vCPUs assigned to the VM-Series firewall. If you assign more vCPUs than those officially supported by the license, any additional vCPUs are assigned to the management plane.

Total vCPUs	Management Plane vCPUs	Dataplane vCPUs
2	1	1
4	2	2
8	2	6
16	4	12

VM-Series Models

CPU Oversubscription