Palo Alto Networks VM-Series Scalability

Kim Ejby Lorentzen - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Principal Solutions Architect, HPE Aruba Networking - Full Stack Platform Expert at a computer software company with 11-50 employees

I haven’t faced any issues with the solution’s scalability. Our clients for the solution are large corporate or global customers.

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AW
Sr. Networking Engineer at Emerson

Obviously, it is scalable as long as you have the licenses and support with Palo Alto. You can implement the firewalls in high-availability mode or use the cloud functionality as well. For scalability, Palo Alto is optimized.

We have 30-plus sites around the world with more than 4,000 users.

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Charles Salameh - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Cloud Engineer at Netcetera AG

It is a scalable solution. We have more than 20 entities using this solution. 

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RM
Security Consultant at Airpel

Compared to Checkpoint Maestro Firewall, the solution's scalability is not up to the mark. We'll need to upgrade the firewall for any tech refresh, throughput requirement, or hardware-based incremental. We have more than 100 customers for Palo Alto Networks VM-Series.

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SB
Network Architect at Correla Ltd.

As for scalability, it can be scalable if deployed correctly from the start. Regarding usage, the number of users will likely remain consistent, but the deployment of various firewall types may increase. This could include different instances or flavors beyond the Palo Alto VM series, such as cloud-native versions on Azure or from other vendors. 

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JH
Director of IT at Tavoca Inc

The scalability is fantastic. We're using the lowest-end product right now, and I don't foresee when we'll have to upgrade. We've got a long way where we can continue to scale up.

We currently have multiple people that use it for VPN purposes, to access our servers behind the firewall. It is not used nearly as extensively as it should be. However, next year, we're going to start flowing all of our internet traffic through it.

We're all working remotely, and we're going to be connecting through the firewall. This means that our traffic is going to greatly increase, meaning that our usage will also increase. We'll also be using many more of the features.

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Aqeel Junaid - PeerSpot reviewer
Junior Executive - Information Security at sunshine holdings

My company has 1,000 users of the product, but not all of them are connected to the product all the time since my company has three different fire products running in the cloud. I would say there are around 600 Palo Alto Networks VM-Series users.

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Deja Srivatjanapong - PeerSpot reviewer
Principal Network Engineer at Soiel

I rate the tool’s scalability an eight or nine out of ten.

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Mitul Rajput - PeerSpot reviewer
GM COE at Anuntatech Management Services Ltd

Scalability might be an issue for large organizations. The throughput is a challenge. Multiple segregations need to be done. More than 40 customers are using the solution. We don't face challenges in deployment and maintenance.

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PM
Senior technical specialist at Softcell Technologies Limited

The product has good scalability. We have small to enterprise businesses as our clients for it.

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Ahmed MohammedKhan - PeerSpot reviewer
Network secur eng at Qatar Free Zone

I rate the product's stability a seven out of ten. It could be better. We have four users for it at the moment. We plan to increase the number of devices.

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BK
Manager, Information Technology at SWPA Corp

We haven't explored the scalability yet.

We have approximately 80 Windows 10 clients, and we have approximately 85 users in our organization.

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Ahmed_Shalaby - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Cyber Security Engineer at Beta Information Technology

I rate the solution a seven out of ten for scalability.

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Hendrik-Du Plooy - PeerSpot reviewer
Regional Manager at Saber1

We have 5000 Palo Alto Networks VM-Series users as our clients. I rate its scalability a ten out of ten.

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Ricardo S. - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Infrastructure Architect at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

We currently don't have many end-users of this solution. It is being used mostly for servers. We have around 100 servers. In the future, we plan to have more users. Our company has around 10,000 people.

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Nasir Akbar - PeerSpot reviewer
Presales Engineer at SAUDI PARAMOUNT COMPUTER SYSTEMS

Almost 25 customers in Riyadh migrated from Juniper to Palo Alto this year. Before buying the product, we must know the number of users who will be using it. We must buy the model that best suits our needs.

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Monica Gorasia - PeerSpot reviewer
Head Of Information Technology at a manufacturing company with 51-200 employees

I rate the solution's scalability a nine out of ten. We have 100 users for the product. 

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IC
Lead Security at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

I give VM-Series six out of 10 for the scalability. It's one area where they need to improve. Scaling up requires a lot of effort because it's cloud infrastructure. You need to change a lot of settings and ask them to customize before it starts working. 

There are still some issues after a customer has customized the solution. Scalability is something they are working on. I am hoping that we'll see some decent scalability within a year and a half. 

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JR
Manager, Information Technology at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees

I don't think that scaling will be a problem since we can adjust the VM-Series model that we want.

I have around 100 instances protected behind this device.

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TM
Network Engineer at Peristent Systems

It is an easy-to-scale product and suitable for enterprises.

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NK
Senior Manager Network Engineering at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

We have almost 3,000 branch offices set up across the globe.

Our intention is to increase usage of Palo Alto, adopting it for security in all of our future products.

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PK
Cloud Practice Engineer at a outsourcing company with 51-200 employees

You already can scale it if you put it in Auto Scaling groups. If you put it in a load balancer, it should already be able to scale. 

We put our Palo Altos in the public VPC, then we have contractors come over the Internet and VPN into the Palo Altos to get into the AWS environment. 

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SS
C.T.O at Sastra Network Solution Inc. Pvt. Ltd.

This solution is quite scalable because it has options for deploying in a VM as well as an appliance. The interfaces are all license-based, which means that features can be added just by obtaining another license.

Our current environment has more than three gigs of traffic.

We have a team of four or five people that is responsible for the network. They are continually monitoring the firewall and updating the policies, as required.

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DR
Director of Infrastructure at Arcadia.io

We're still learning about the scalability. We have run into some issues with scaling and limitations associated with some of the configurations. However, it is a solution that we have been happy with overall.

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JL
Executive Cyber Security Consultant at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

Palo Alto does a good job on the scalability. In my opinion, it has excellent scalability.  

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MR
Infrastructure Team Lead at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

The limit of the product is based on resources that we can obtain from AWS. We have approximately 3500 users and 200 servers leveraging the Palo Alto product.

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SS
Director of Cloud Security at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

One of the great features that we liked and selected it was its  scalability. We can autoscale and put it in Auto Scaling groups, which is very useful.

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CA
Support Engineer & IT Professional at SISAP

The Series 2000 version of Palo Alto were somewhat big for small or medium customers. They did not have a middle box. 

In the newer version (3850s), all of them are scalable. They fit better into medium or small businesses, so it is easy for us. E.g, if we have a VMware 500 appliance, we can upgrade it to a 100. They have improved in this way.

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it_user848262 - PeerSpot reviewer
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Solution Architect at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

It has to be more scalable for the deployment of VMs on the cloud.

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CB
System Administrator at DeepMap

It is definitely scalable. We have about 100 users with about 200 to 300 instances on the cloud that we protect.

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GK
Infrastructure Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

It is a scalable tool. Considering the licensing part of the solution, it may not seem scalable, especially when you want to move from Palo Alto Networks VM-300 to Palo Alto Networks VM-500 since, for such a procedure, the virtual machines will have to be brought down and registered again with a different license, which is challenging.

My company's customers who use the solution are mostly enterprise-sized businesses.

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PT
Solution Architect at JM Family Enterprises

We are happy with the scalability. 

We just started migrating to the cloud. Thus, we are slowly adding more volume to it. Maybe next year, we should know how it is scaling in the cloud.

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VG
IT Security Head with 1,001-5,000 employees

It is scalable but I cannot really comment on how much because we have not taken it to that level. We have between 450 and 500 users.

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KO
ICT Infrastructure Specialist (E-Transform Project) at Ministry of Communications and Information

It is very easy to scale. All you have to do is get access to the VM base and then spin it off into another virtual environment or send it into the cloud.  This means that you now have a data center through Palo Alto.

They have a new product called Prisma that allows you to create links between remote users working from different areas and use that to connect to the clouds in this infrastructure. It also allows you to get connectivity to that but not using a backhaul. Rather, you connect straight from wherever you are.

In the places where we have deployed this solution, they have a couple of thousand users.

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SS
System Administrator at a government with 201-500 employees

This is a scalable solution but it would be better if it had direct integration with Microsoft Azure.

Currently, we have three administrators and more than 5,000 end-users through our public website.

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DS
Consultant at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

We have tried to scale. The Western side of migration is very easy in terms of scalability. Our customers may increase their licensing counts in tandem with their increased performance requirements from the firewall. In this case, they would procure a VMP and the license. The activation of the firewall would be accomplished by the tech in the back-end. The customer would get the migration capabilities and procure the license without experiencing any downtime. 




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KS
Senior Network Architect at a manufacturing company with 5,001-10,000 employees

This is a scalable solution.

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IW
Solution sales at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

I rate the product's scalability a nine out of ten. 

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GA
Senior Network Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

The scalability is good. We haven't experienced any constraint limitations for scaling.

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GA
Senior Network Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

It is scalable.

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AC
Managing Partner at a computer software company with 11-50 employees

No issues. It scales linearly with load and no issues.

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TD
Security Operations Specialist at a logistics company with 201-500 employees

It is scalable. It has handled the network very well with our growth in the last five years. 

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RO
System Engineer at a tech consulting company with 501-1,000 employees

I have not encountered any problems.

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AP
Director at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

It is fairly scalable. We have a couple hundred servers already.

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it_user798924 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Lead Infrastructure at a healthcare company with 201-500 employees

We picked the PA-3050s. They can handle a lot of traffic, so we are nowhere near our limits on it. We are not really touching its full capacity at the moment.

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it_user1386156 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technology Specialist at Accretive Technologies Pvt Ltd

Although I haven't personally tried to scale the solution, my understanding is that it's easy to do so. It's convenient for enterprises. It's my understanding it would scale especially well for enterprises.

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RS
Network Security Engineer at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees

The VM-Series is a scalable product.

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Buyer's Guide
Palo Alto Networks VM-Series
April 2024
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768,740 professionals have used our research since 2012.