Setting up Panorama
Before you get started, you will first need to decide how you want to deploy Panorama as there are many options that can influence your choices. Panorama can be deployed as a physical appliance like the M-300 (up to 16 TB of storage) or the M-700 (up to 48 TB of storage) appliances, or a VM image, both locally and in the cloud. All of these options have 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, 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. Before you can do that, you need to determine...
