Use this procedure to set the number of vCPUs used by your VM-Series
firewall.
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- VM-Series 10.x or above
- Panorama running PAN-OS 10.1.x or above versions
- Customer Support Portals (CSP) account with one of the
following user roles:
- Super User, Standard User, Limited User, Threat
Researcher, AutoFocus Trial Role, Group Super User,
Group Standard User, Group Limited User, Group
Threat Researcher, Authorized Support Center (ASC)
User, and ASC Full Service User.
- Superuser access to the VM-Series firewall
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You can specify the number of vCPUs that are
licensed when using Software NGFW credits instead of licensing all
the vCPUs available on your chosen compute instance. This allows
you to use a larger compute instance without consuming more Software NGFW
credits than necessary.
This feature requires VM-Series
plugin 2.1.4 or later.
You can specify the number of
vCPUs to be licensed using a bootstrap plugin op command or the
VM-Series firewall CLI.
To set the number of cores
when bootstrapping a VM-Series firewall, add the following command
to your init-cfg.txt file.
plugin-op-commands=set-cores:<number-of-cores>
For
example:
plugin-op-commands=set-cores:4
To set the number of cores on a VM-Series firewall that has
already been deployed, use the following CLI command.
request plugins vm_series set-cores cores <number-of-cores>
For
example:
request plugins vm_series set-cores cores 16
Reboot the VM-Series firewall for this change to take effect.
