1. New Features for Virtualized Environments
Mike Jacobsen

2. Addressing security challenges in virtualized environments
Provisioning of applications can occur in minutes with frequent changes
Security approvals and configurations may take weeks/months
Dynamic security policies for physical and virtual firewalls that understand VM context are needed
Dynamic Address Groups
Dynamic address objects introduced in 5.0
Automatically updating firewall object
Single tag support
Dynamic address groups in 6.0
Supports multiple tags for VM attributes
Increased max of registered IP addresses per object/system
5.0 dynamic objects convert to new groups
VM Monitoring
No pre-built integrations in 5.0
Manual scripts using API calls required to update dynamic objects
VM Monitoring in 6.0
Native integration with VMware vCenter and ESXi as dynamic information sources
Continued support for custom information sources using APIs

3. Dynamic address groups and VM monitoring
VMware vCenter or ESXi
PAN-OS Dynamic Address Groups
Name
Tags
Addresses
SharePoint Servers
SharePoint
Win 2008 R2
“sp”
MySQL Servers
MySQL
Ubuntu 12.04
“db”
Miami DC
“mia”
San Jose Linux
Web Servers
“sjc”
“web”
Name
SharePoint Servers
MySQL Servers
Miami DC
San Jose Linux
Web Servers
Name
Tags
Addresses
SharePoint Servers
SharePoint
Win 2008 R2
“sp”
MySQL Servers
MySQL
Ubuntu 12.04
“db”
Miami DC
“mia”
San Jose Linux
Web Servers
“sjc”
“web”
Name
Tags
Addresses
SharePoint Servers
MySQL Servers
Miami DC
San Jose Linux
Web Servers
Name IP
Guest OS
Container
web-sjc-01
Ubuntu 12.04
Web
sp-sjc-04
Win 2008 R2
SharePoint
web-sjc-02
exch-mia-03
Exchange
exch-dfw-03
sp-mia-07
db-mia-01
MySQL
db-dfw-02 IP
db-mia-05
Ubuntu 12.04
MySQL
PAN-OS Security Policy
Source
Destination
Action
Source
Destination
Action
San Jose Linux
Web Servers
SharePoint Servers ✔
MySQL
Servers
Miami DC 

4. VM-Series support for Citrix NetScaler SDX
Citrix NetScaler SDX is an open service-delivery platform that consolidates ADC (application delivery controller) and best-in-class network and security services
VM-Series is now supported on Citrix SDX and Series
Key use cases:
Multi-tenant cloud deployments to meet individual needs of business unit, application owners, service provider customers
Integrated solution for Citrix XenApp/XenDesktop deployments
VM-100, VM-200, VM-300 deployed as guest VMs