{"id":102471,"date":"2019-10-08T06:00:53","date_gmt":"2019-10-08T13:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/?p=102471"},"modified":"2019-10-23T07:13:10","modified_gmt":"2019-10-23T14:13:10","slug":"cloud-pan-os-9-0-and-vm-series-on-azure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/cloud-pan-os-9-0-and-vm-series-on-azure\/","title":{"rendered":"Upgrade Notice for Customers Using PAN-OS 9.0 and VM-Series on Azure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Customers using PAN-OS 9.0 and VM-Series on Azure, get ready for Azure Accelerated Networking updates by upgrading to PAN-OS 9.0.4.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With PAN-OS 9.0, VM-Series on Azure introduced<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.paloaltonetworks.com\/pan-os\/9-0\/pan-os-new-features\/virtualization-features\/support-for-azure-accelerated-networking-sriov\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> support for Azure Accelerated Networking<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you are using PAN-OS 9.0, please update your existing deployments to version<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.paloaltonetworks.com\/pan-os\/9-0\/pan-os-release-notes\/pan-os-9-0-addressed-issues\/pan-os-9-0-4-addressed-issues.html#\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> PAN-OS 9.0.4<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> as soon as possible. The 9.0.4 release provides support for Microsoft updates to Azure Accelerated Networking (AN) that are scheduled to roll out during October 2019 and bug fixes that improve stability. For any new deployment, use PAN-OS 9.0.4 from the Azure Marketplace. VM-Series versions prior to PAN-OS 9.0, i.e. 8.1 and earlier, do not require this update.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You have four options for upgrading to PAN-OS 9.0.4:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Deploy a new VM-Series running 9.0.4 from<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/azuremarketplace.microsoft.com\/en-us\/marketplace\/apps\/paloaltonetworks.vmseries-ngfw?tab=Overview\" rel=\"nofollow,noopener\" ><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Azure Marketplace<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Upgrade a standalone VM-Series firewall using<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/azuremarketplace.microsoft.com\/en-us\/marketplace\/apps\/paloaltonetworks.vmseries-ngfw?tab=Overview\" rel=\"nofollow,noopener\" ><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> steps here<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Upgrade multiple VM-Series firewalls<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.paloaltonetworks.com\/pan-os\/9-0\/pan-os-new-features\/upgrade-to-pan-os-90\/upgrade-the-firewall-to-pan-os-90\/upgrade-firewalls-using-panorama.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> using Panorama<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Upgrade for environments without direct internet access: Download PAN-OS 9.0.4 from the Customer Support Portal and load it directly on the firewalls; refer to the<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.paloaltonetworks.com\/pan-os\/9-0\/pan-os-new-features\/upgrade-to-pan-os-90\/upgrade-the-firewall-to-pan-os-90\/upgrade-a-firewall-to-pan-os-90.html\"> documentation<\/a> for detailed steps.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As always, you can find our content\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.paloaltonetworks.com\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">on our Technical Documentation site<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Happy reading!<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Your friendly Technical Documentation team<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Have questions? Contact us at\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"mailto:documentation@paloaltonetworks.com\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">documentation@paloaltonetworks.com<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PAN-OS 9.0 Customers, get ready for Azure Accelerated Networking updates by upgrading to PAN-OS 9.0.4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":602,"featured_media":69485,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6768,587],"tags":[1664,6729,1824,309],"coauthors":[6425],"class_list":["post-102471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-secure-the-cloud","category-technical-documentation","tag-azure","tag-pan-os-9-0","tag-technical-documentation","tag-vm-series"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/techdocs_featured-Image.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/602"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102471"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102475,"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102471\/revisions\/102475"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102471"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=102471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}