The physical PA-5220 coughed one last time at 2:17 AM and went silent. The VM didn't flinch. Throughput: 3.2 Gbps steady. Session table: 1.7 million active flows. CPU on the ESXi host: 34%.
The console showed the familiar boot sequence: BIOS, GRUB, then the PanOS kernel. A green [ OK ] line appeared for each service: mgmtsrvr , dataplane , pan_task . Then the prompt: login: download pa-vm-esx-10.0.0.ova
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Within an hour, Maya imported a partial config from the failing physical firewall: security policies, NAT rules, SSL decryption profiles. No wildcard objects—10.0.0 handled them better than 9.x, but still had character limits. Session table: 1
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