![]() Did I have an older model of a PA-220? Was my device from an earlier batch that wasn’t version 10 compatible? Were there other people out there that had the same problem as me? What was I missing here? It was time to jump on the interwebs and do some research. I went ahead and checked another PA-220 that I had access to and did a “Check Now”’ on its “Software” page, too, and yep - there it is: 10.0.0 and 10.0.1 are listed plain as day. ![]() That’s part of the reason I’d gotten this model and not spent the additional money for the next larger model. ![]() I was SO certain that everything I’d read said the PA-220 was compatible with version 10. So, after going to my firewall’s Device -> Software, I clicked on “Check Now” and waited for the page to refresh, planning to click on “Download” for 10.0.0. On my PA-220, I’d been working with an older version of the PAN-OS for quite some time (9.0.5), because it kept working, had all of the capabilities that I needed, and if it isn’t broke, you don’t fix it. And as dumb luck would have it - even though I was ready to make an exception with 10.0 because I’d done my homework and had no concerns - 10.0.1 was released just a couple days before I set out on upgrading, keeping my tradition of not deploying an X.0 version of something going. I now wait for at least one minor version release, preferably two, before upgrading to a major release, to make sure the worst of the newly introduced issues are taken care of. I allocated an hour or so one evening to perform the upgrade, but as the old adage goes, “The best laid schemes of mice and men often go awry.” It’s fair to say it took a bit longer than I expected.Īs a personal idiosyncrasy, I do not upgrade anything to the X.0 version - I’ve been burned way too many times. ![]() With the articles I’ve written in the past and since version 10 has been out for a while now, I wanted to start getting some experience with it myself, so I figured it was time to pull the trigger and upgrade my lab. A few weekends ago, I embarked on the adventure of upgrading my PA-220 to PAN-OS 10.
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