Upgrading Palo Alto

Upgrading Palo Alto is very easy in compared to any other next generation firewall. We just need to be careful with few of the things

1. Downloading software

Go to Device > Software and we will need to check which software version are we trying to upgrade to.

Note : We cannot directly jump for one major version to another like from 9.1.x to 10.1.x. We will need to go from 9.1.x to 10.0.x. This is how it normally works in most of the firewall.

We now need to select the version we want to install it and directly download it to our software repository. As our PA 3220 is in HA we can also directly sync the downloaded software to our secondary PA 3220.

2. Installing Software

Once we download the software we can now install the software. The software upgradation process does take around 10-15 mins approximately. Palo Alto will reboot and gets started automatically.

3. Verification

Palo Alto has now rebooted and is upgraded as well.

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