Setting up Panorama

Before you get started, you will first need to decide how you want to deploy Panorama as there are many options available that can influence your choices. Panorama can be deployed as a physical appliance or a VM image, both locally and in the cloud. All of these options have their advantages over the others. A physical appliance can either be deployed as a Panorama instance or as a log collector, which can be bundled and spread out to make it more resilient and bandwidth-efficient, while keeping physical control over logs. VMs are very easy to deploy and run on nearly all common hypervisors that are likely already available, so no hardware is needed to deploy them. Cloud-based Panorama allows the admin optimal access from any location for management and firewall access.

If Panorama is to be deployed as a VM, the first step is to determine the minimum system prerequisites.

Panorama VM in Management-Only Mode ...