Palo Alto PA-800 Upgrade Guide

About the PA-800

Palo Alto PA-800 Series Campus Firewall

Technical specifications

Recommended upgrade strategy

Security appliances like the PA-800 upgrade via subscription tier increases, additional interface modules, redundant PSU additions, and SSD storage expansion for log retention. ICD supports Palo Alto PA-800 with both OEM and third-party hardware sourcing.

ICD Palo Alto expertise

ICD maintains Palo Alto parts inventory and engineering expertise — submit your Palo Alto PA-800 configuration via RFQ for tailored upgrade recommendations covering memory, storage, network adapters, controllers, and power supplies.

Upgrade categories ICD can quote for the PA-800

Even when our database does not yet list specific compatible parts for the PA-800, ICD engineering team sources verified-compatible components across these categories. Submit a quote request with your current configuration:

• Memory — DDR3, DDR4, DDR5 RDIMM, LRDIMM, ECC SO-DIMM modules at maximum supported capacity
• Storage — Enterprise SSDs (SAS, SATA, NVMe), HDDs (NL-SAS, SAS 10K/15K RPM), and tape generations
• RAID and HBA controllers — Hardware RAID, JBOD passthrough, fabric attach, with cache battery
• Network adapters — 1GbE, 10GbE, 25GbE, 40GbE, 100GbE NICs plus SFP+ and QSFP transceiver modules
• Power supplies — Redundant hot-swap PSUs in matching wattage and connector specification
• CPUs — Intel Xeon Scalable and AMD EPYC where socket-compatible with this platform
• GPUs — NVIDIA Tesla, A-series, and RTX A-series for compute and visualization workloads
• Accessories — Bezels, mounting rails, drive caddies, cooling fans, and chassis hardware