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They sell OVA 'form factor'
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You mean there is no freely available ova for training?
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Ok - that's what I'll do. Thank you.
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I'd like to practice with a virtual PAN firewall. Is it possible to get a virtual version of it (partially brain dead ok) to <br />
practice working with it.
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I'd like to practice with a virtual PAN firewall. Is it possible to get a virtual version of it (partially brain dead ok) to 
practice working with it.

Is there a freely available Palo Alto Networks OVA for training purposes?

Hardware-based firewalls provide more sophisticated protection for inbound and outbound traffic than the simple Windows software firewall or the basic NAT firewalls found in routers. These devices implement techniques such as stateful packet inspection, deep packet inspection, and content filtering; and may include built-in antivirus and anti-malware protection.

Hardware Firewalls

VMware, a software company founded in 1998,  was one of the first commercially successful companies to offer x86 virtualization. The storage company EMC purchased VMware in 1994. Dell Technologies acquired EMC in 2016. VMware’s parent company is now Dell Technologies.

VMware has many software products that run on desktops, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, which allows the virtualizing of the x86 architecture.  Its enterprise software hypervisor for servers, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on the server hardware and does not require an additional underlying operating system.