
6 VM-Series Deployment Guide
License the VM-Series Firewall About the VM-Series Firewall
Register the VM-Series Firewall
Use the instructions in this section to register your capacity auth-code with your support account.
Activate the License
To activate the license on your VM-Series firewall, you must have deployed the VM-Series firewall and
completed initial configuration. For instructions to deploy the VM-Series firewall, see VM-Series Deployments.
Until you activate the license on the VM-Series firewall, the firewall does not have a serial number, the MAC
address of the dataplane interfaces are not unique, and only a minimal number of sessions are supported.
Because the MAC addresses are not unique until the firewall is licensed, to prevent issues caused by overlapping
MAC addresses, make sure that you do not have multiple, unlicensed VM-Series firewalls.
Register the VM-Series Firewall
1. Log in to https://support.paloaltonetworks.com with your account credentials.
2. Select
Assets and click Add VM-Series Auth-Codes.
3. In the
Add VM-Series Auth-Code field, enter the capacity auth-code you received by email, and click the checkmark
on the far right to save your input. The page will display the list of auth-codes registered to your support account.
You can track the number of VM-Series firewalls that have been deployed and the number of licenses that are still
available for use against each auth-code. When all the available licenses are used, the auth-code does not display on
the VM-Series Auth-Codes page. To view all the assets that are deployed, select
Assets > Devices.
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