Learn what your peers think about Palo Alto Networks VM-Series. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: January 2026.
Palo Alto Networks VM-Series has everything centralized. You have the VPN solution, firewall, routing, UDR, flexibility, updates, and full visibility of your traffic.
I like the UI. Most things are accessible from the user interface and it is quite user-friendly. With respect to both VM-based firewalls and physical firewalls, it's easy to create updates.
Lead Security at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
Vendor
Nov 17, 2022
The VM-Series reports how much bandwidth a particular IP is using. You don't need to regularly log into a website, like a Cisco command, to see what kind of ACL it's getting. There isn't an ACL use portal event. You can go there and see how much my ACL has been getting me.
Manager-Information Technology at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
Real User
Top 10
May 2, 2022
Palo Alto’s Panorama centralized management system simplifies our security posture based on our requirements. Instead of manually pulling logs, then generating them into readable formats, it gives us the console in a readable format to view.
With the improved visibility we now have, the traffic is being properly monitored, which means that we are better able to manage it. These are improvements that we saw very quickly.
IT Infrastructure Architect at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Jan 23, 2021
Using Palo Alto Networks Panorama, we were able to deploy a single point of management and visualization of the firewall infrastructure in cloud, on-premise and integrated with Azure to automate scale up. Its security features, i.e. anti-malware, threat prevention, URL Filtering, VPN, and antivirus are the most valuable. The ID-User integrated with AD and 2FA features are also very useful to provide secure access to servers and some users in the company.Â
Network Security Engineer at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees
Real User
Dec 11, 2020
The VM series has an advantage over the physical version because we are able to change the sources that the machine has, such as the amount of available RAM.
Senior Network Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Real User
Oct 7, 2020
The most valuable feature is that you can launch it in a very short time. You don't have to wait for the hardware to arrive and get it staged and installed. From that perspective, it is easy to launch. It is also scalable.
Senior Manager Network Engineering at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Sep 10, 2020
The most valuable feature is that you can control your traffic flowing out and coming it, allowing you to apply malware and threat protection, as well as vulnerability checks.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Solution Architect at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Consultant
Jan 14, 2019
Embedding it into my application development lifecycle prevents data loss and business disruption, allowing the adoption to operate at the speed of my AWS Cloud.
AWS has improved our agility to apply firewall rules. It has reduced the amount of time that it takes to apply firewall rules because everything is based in the cloud.
Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is a highly effective advanced threat protection (ATP) solution and firewall that can be hosted on cloud computing technologies designed by many different companies. It decreases the amount of time that it will take administrators to respond to threats. Users that deploy VM-series have 70% less downtime than those who use similar firewalls. Neither protection nor efficiency are concerns when this next-generation firewall is in play.
VM-Series is...
The filtering feature is good.
The VM-Series scalability is fast and easy to implement, improving our security posture as our Azure network grows.
The technical support for the solution is very good.
The most effective features of the solution for threat prevention are Layer 7 inspection, SSL decryption, IPS, and the web filtering profile.
The product provides more visibility into our traffic.
The most valuable features of the solution are its stability, ease of implementation, ease of operation, and security.
We use the product on our Azure network firewalls.
The solution enables organizations to enforce policies.
Palo Alto Networks VM-Series's most valuable feature is the visibility of the environment.
The main advantage of Palo Alto Networks VM-Series stems from the fact that you can access it with the help of cloud services.
The tool's cloud version makes application migration easy.
We can monitor the traffic manually and detect threats. Additionally, we can block different IP addresses and URLs.
It is an easy-to-scale product.
Palo Alto Networks VM-Series has everything centralized. You have the VPN solution, firewall, routing, UDR, flexibility, updates, and full visibility of your traffic.
I like the UI. Most things are accessible from the user interface and it is quite user-friendly. With respect to both VM-based firewalls and physical firewalls, it's easy to create updates.
Centralized management is valuable because it allows us to configure settings in one location and apply them across all three locations.
The VM-Series reports how much bandwidth a particular IP is using. You don't need to regularly log into a website, like a Cisco command, to see what kind of ACL it's getting. There isn't an ACL use portal event. You can go there and see how much my ACL has been getting me.
The most valuable feature is the CLI.
Palo Alto’s Panorama centralized management system simplifies our security posture based on our requirements. Instead of manually pulling logs, then generating them into readable formats, it gives us the console in a readable format to view.
With the improved visibility we now have, the traffic is being properly monitored, which means that we are better able to manage it. These are improvements that we saw very quickly.
The initial setup was straightforward.
Using Palo Alto Networks Panorama, we were able to deploy a single point of management and visualization of the firewall infrastructure in cloud, on-premise and integrated with Azure to automate scale up. Its security features, i.e. anti-malware, threat prevention, URL Filtering, VPN, and antivirus are the most valuable. The ID-User integrated with AD and 2FA features are also very useful to provide secure access to servers and some users in the company.Â
Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is very easy to use.
The VM series has an advantage over the physical version because we are able to change the sources that the machine has, such as the amount of available RAM.
What I like about the VM-Series is that you can launch them in a very short time.
The most valuable feature is that you can launch it in a very short time. You don't have to wait for the hardware to arrive and get it staged and installed. From that perspective, it is easy to launch. It is also scalable.
The feature that I have found the most useful is that it meets all our requirements technically.
The most valuable features are the User ID, URL filtering, and application filtering.
The Palo Alto VM-Series is nice because I can move the firewalls easily.
The most valuable feature is that you can control your traffic flowing out and coming it, allowing you to apply malware and threat protection, as well as vulnerability checks.
The most valuable feature is the Posture Assessment.
In Palo Alto the most important feature is the App-ID.
The most valuable features are web control and IPS/IDS.
The interface with Panorama makes it very easy to use.
The most valuable features are security and support.
The most valuable aspects of this solution are that it's simple and stable. It has better security aspects compared to other similar solutions.
In AWS, Palo Alto provides us a better view than flow logs for network traffic.
Embedding it into my application development lifecycle prevents data loss and business disruption, allowing the adoption to operate at the speed of my AWS Cloud.
It provides complete security posture from end-to-end. This has given us better visibility into what our security aspects are.
It allows us to see all our traffic to properly secure it and only allow what is needed through the firewall.
AWS has improved our agility to apply firewall rules. It has reduced the amount of time that it takes to apply firewall rules because everything is based in the cloud.
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.
It offers a single pane of glass for all the different types of installations.
It has the ability to create Palo Alto VM-series using software.