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The VM-Series delivers comprehensive visibility, control and safe application enablement for virtualized and cloud environments.

  • Identify, segment and safely enable applications regardless of port, encryption (SSL or SSH) or evasive technique employed.
  • Address risk and compliance mandates with protection against known and unknown threats including exploits, viruses, spyware, malware and advanced persistent threats (APTs).
  • Create dynamic security policies with virtualization and business context.
  • Reduce errors in security configuration through context sharing between virtualization and security environments.

VM-1000-HV | VM-300 | VM-200 | VM-100 Virtualized Firewalls


You can deploy the VM-Series on ESXi servers in virtualized and for cloud environments for East West traffic inspection. The VM-Series on Citrix NetScaler consolidates security and application delivery controller capabilities for multi-tenant (business unit, application owner, service provider customer) deployments or as a complete solution for Citrix XenApp XenDesktop deployments.

2, 4, or 8 CPU cores on your virtualized server platforms can be assigned for next-generation firewall processing. With 4 CPU cores running, the VM-Series delivers up to 1 Gbps firewall throughput with App-ID enabled. To ensure that management is accessible to you during heavy traffic, the data and control plane are separated. In addition, our unique single-pass software architecture processes functions in a single pass to reduce latency.

VM-Series on the ESXi servers supports 10 virtual network interfaces while VM-Series on the Citrix NetScaler SDX supports 24 virtual network interfaces.

VM-1000-HV Virtualized Firewall at Granite State Electronics



VM-1000-HV Virtualized Firewalls

  • 250,000 max sessions
  • 2,000 IPSec VPN tunnels/tunnel interfaces
  • 500 SSL VPN Users
  • 40 security zones
  • 10,000 max number of policies
  • 10,000 address objects
  • 1Gbps Firewall Throughput (App-ID enabled)*
  • 600 Mbps Threat Prevention Throughput*
  • 250 Mbps IPSec VPN Throughput*
  • 8,000 New sessions per second*

VM-300 Virtualized Firewalls

  • 250,000 max sessions
  • 2,000 IPSec VPN tunnels/tunnel interfaces
  • 500 SSL VPN Users
  • 40 security zones
  • 5,000 max number of policies
  • 10,000 address objects
  • 1Gbps Firewall Throughput (App-ID enabled)*
  • 600 Mbps Threat Prevention Throughput*
  • 250 Mbps IPSec VPN Throughput*
  • 8,000 New sessions per second*

VM-200 Virtualized Firewalls

  • 100,000 max sessions
  • 500 IPSec VPN tunnels/tunnel interfaces
  • 200 SSL VPN Users
  • 20 security zones
  • 2,000 max number of policies
  • 4,000 address objects
  • 1Gbps Firewall Throughput (App-ID enabled)*
  • 600 Mbps Threat Prevention Throughput*
  • 250 Mbps IPSec VPN Throughput*
  • 8,000 New sessions per second*

VM-100 Virtualized Firewalls

  • 50,000 max sessions
  • 25 IPSec VPN tunnels/tunnel interfaces
  • 25SSL VPN Users
  • 10 security zones
  • 250 max number of policies
  • 2,500 address objects
  • 1Gbps Firewall Throughput (App-ID enabled)*
  • 600 Mbps Threat Prevention Throughput*
  • 250 Mbps IPSec VPN Throughput*
  • 8,000 New sessions per second*

*Performance and capacities are measured under ideal testing conditions using PAN-OS 5.0 and 4 CPU cores.