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After you Perform Initial Configuration of the Panorama Virtual Appliance (/content/techdocs/en_US/panorama/10-
1/panorama-admin/set-up-panorama/set-up-the-panorama-virtual-appliance/perform-initial-configuration-of-the-panorama-
virtual-appliance.html#id98f6db8a-4c6c-40de-a190-fc95828433e4), the available log storage capacity and the options for
expanding it depend on the virtual platform (VMware ESXi, vCloud Air, Alibaba Cloud, AWS, AWS GovCloud, Azure, Google
Cloud Platform, KVM, Hyper-V, or OCI) and mode (Legacy, Panorama, or Log Collector mode): see Panorama Models
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f727-45aa-ae7e-ef7599379871) for details.

To expand the log storage capacity on the Panorama virtual appliance, you must add additional logging disks. Expanding the
log storage capacity of an existing logging disk is not supported, and Panorama does not recognize the additional storage
capacity. For example; if you added a 2TB logging disk, and then expanded that existing logging disk to 4TB, Panorama
continues to recognize the logging disk as having 2TB of storage capacity and ignores the additional 2TB of storage capacity.

For additional log storage, you can also forward firewall logs to Dedicated Log Collectors (see Configure a
Managed Collector (/content/techdocs/en_US/panorama/10-1/panorama-admin/manage-log-
collection/configure-a-managed-collector.html#idf8d86697-3296-455d-93a7-16abbb3e9aa3)) or Configure

 Log Forwarding from Panorama to External Destinations (/content/techdocs/en_US/panorama/10-

1/panorama-admin/manage-log-collection/configure-log-forwarding-from-panorama-to-external-
destinations.html#id9f32b991-3e88-4976-a410-10d1367bcf8b).

Before expanding log storage capacity on Panorama, Determine Panorama Log Storage Requirements
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Add a Virtual Disk to Panorama on vCloud Air (/content/techdocs/en_US/panorama/10-1/panorama-admin/set-up-

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Add a Virtual Disk to Panorama on Alibaba Cloud (/content/techdocs/en_US/panorama/10-1/panorama-admin/set-up-

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Add a Virtual Disk to Panorama on AWS (/content/techdocs/en_US/panorama/10-1/panorama-admin/set-up-

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Add a Virtual Disk to Panorama on Google Cloud Platform (/content/techdocs/en_US/panorama/10-1/panorama-

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Add a Virtual Disk to Panorama on KVM (/content/techdocs/en_US/panorama/10-1/panorama-admin/set-up-

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Add a Virtual Disk to Panorama on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) (/content/techdocs/en_US/panorama/10-

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Mount the Panorama ESXi Server to an NFS Datastore (/content/techdocs/en_US/panorama/10-1/panorama-admin/set-

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