
12 • PAN-OS 6.1 Release Notes Palo Alto Networks
Features Introduced in PAN-OS 6.1 PAN-OS 6.1 Release Information
High Availability (HA) Features
The following high availability (HA) feature is introduced in PAN-OS 6.1.0:
Networking Features
The following Networking features are introduced in PAN-OS 6.1.0. For more details about these features and
for instructions on configuring them, refer to Networking Features in the New Features Guide.
New High Availability
Feature
Description
HA Session Sync During
Upgrade from One
Feature Release to the
Next
Session syncing will now remain operable when upgrading HA peers from one PAN-OS
feature release version to the next feature release version (for example, when upgrading the
firewalls from PAN-OS 6.0.x to PAN-OS 6.1.x). Although session syncing has always been
operable when upgrading from one maintenance release to another in the same feature
release version (for example, during upgrade from PAN-OS 6.0.1 to PAN-OS 6.0.3), in
prior releases it was inoperable when upgrading from one PAN-OS feature release to the
next. This meant that if there was a failover during the period of time when the individual
firewalls in the HA pair were running different feature release versions (for example, if one
firewall was running 5.0.13 and the other one was running 6.0.3) sessions could have been
impacted.
New Networking Feature Description
NAT Enhancement for
Session Load Balancing
On PA-5000 Series platforms, Static Source NAT, Dynamic IP NAT, and Destination NAT
session processing has been enhanced to allow the firewall to use multiple CPUs to process
NAT sessions, rather than anchoring the sessions to a CPU based on destination IP hash.
This enhancement greatly improves throughput in these NAT scenarios, particularly in
topologies that include a load balancer or other device that limits the number of destination
IP addresses. This enhancement will occur automatically upon upgrade of the PA-5000
Series device. Note that Dynamic IP and Port NAT (DIPP) or Dynamic IP NAT sessions
that fall back to DIPP will continue to be anchored to a specific CPU, based on the
destination IP address (the target translated address).
NAT Capacity
Enhancements
The maximum number of NAT rules (static, Dynamic IP, and Dynamic IP/Port) allowed
for each platform has been increased and NAT statistics now include usage and memory
information to provide efficient management of NAT rules. The Dynamic IP/Port
oversubscription ratio can now be tuned to allow greater control in environments requiring
more Dynamic IP and Dynamic IP/Port rules. These NAT capacity enhancements are
supported on PA-3000 Series, PA-4000 Series, PA-5000 Series, and PA-7050 platforms.
LACP
You can now use the Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP) to dynamically detect the
interfaces between interconnected devices (peers) and combine those interfaces into an
aggregate group. Enabling LACP provides redundancy within an aggregate group: the
protocol automatically detects interface failures and fails over to standby interfaces. LACP
is supported on Layer 2, Layer 3, and HA3 interfaces only and is supported on PA-500,
PA-3000 Series, PA-4000 Series, PA-5000 Series and PA-7050 platforms.
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