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ARM Support on VM-Series Firewall

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ARM Support on VM-Series Firewall

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

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