Our customers are using the product.
The solution offers good logging features.
The management is great.
It is easy to set up.
The solution is stable.
I can scale well.
Using a Palo Alto solution is very straightforward.
We have faced some challenges with the solution. We had Panorama in the cloud, and then we used Panorama to manage the on-prem firewalls. Then we had some network-centric architecture to connect to on-prem, where we had two separate Palo Alto firewalls on the cloud. From there, we had a direct connect, external direct connect to the on-prem. In that case, the issue we faced was that whenever the traffic left AWS, it went with any one of the subnets, either from availabilities on one subnet or availabilities on two subnets. When we configured Panorama, it was actually behind a NAT device on two separate IP signals, and there were challenges around that.
When we were deploying Panorama in AWS, there were some issues with Panorama deployment in AWS. I was the first customer to deploy Panorama in AWS, and I raised a case with both AWS and Panorama. Then, in the next Panorama release, they enhanced some features, and both came up in the same version. I had to wait for two or three months to get to a resolution.
Sometimes technical support is slow to respond.
The solution is expensive.
Panorama can be a bit difficult compared to other Palo Alto solutions. It would be ideal if they could simplify it a bit.
I've been using the solution for two years.
Overall, the product is stable. There are no bugs or glitches, and it doesn't crash or freeze.
We haven't had an issue with scalability.
We work mainly with enterprise-level organizations.
In our region, technical support is not so good. We need to wait if we are reaching out with a P1 case. Sometimes we have to wait for two or three hours. That can be an issue.
I do also work with various other vendors.
The initial setup is very simple and quite straightforward. It was not overly complex. It's been two years now since I implemented the solution, and therefore I cannot recall exactly how long the deployment took. While the process was smooth, we did face some integration issues, for example, integrating the active standard Palo Alto to Panorama.
It's a costly product. All Palo Alto products are pretty expensive. Nowadays, people are looking for security and something that offers easy management. Therefore, Palo Alto can easily charge what they want.
We're partners. We handle pre-sales and implementation of the solution for clients.
It's a good product. However, if a company wants to deploy the solution, it should first do a proper study and design it properly. Otherwise, they will likely run into issues.
I'd rate the solution seven out of ten.