{"id":11466,"date":"2026-01-12T20:03:46","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T20:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/?p=11466"},"modified":"2026-01-12T20:03:46","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T20:03:46","slug":"panorama-pan-os-12-1-upgrade-fails-no-enough-disk-space-to-hold-image","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/?p=11466","title":{"rendered":"Panorama PAN-OS 12.1 upgrade fails, ‘no enough disk space to hold image’"},"content":{"rendered":"

In getting ready to move Panorama to PAN-OS 12.1 from 11.1 (to manage some new PA-5×0 series firewalls) if you haven’t already performed the ‘224GB’ disk size increase you are likely to bump into this error message:<\/p>\n

Successfully downloaded
\nSoftware version: 12.1.2
\nPreloading into software manager
\nFailed to create required free space. Free space: 3191 MB, Required space: 3717 MB
\nNo enough disk space to hold image
\nFailed to load into software manager. Please retry.
\nPost processing failed. Please retry.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

After a little chuckle at the error in the error message (No != Not) the fix is simple, swap out the Panorama OS disk with a larger one following the exact steps of the guide below.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/docs.paloaltonetworks.com\/panorama\/11-1\/panorama-admin\/set-up-panorama\/set-up-the-panorama-virtual-appliance\/increase-the-system-disk-on-the-panorama-virtual-appliance\/increase-the-system-disk-for-panorama-on-an-esxi-server<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In getting ready to move Panorama to PAN-OS 12.1 from 11.1 (to manage some new PA-5×0 series firewalls) if you haven’t already performed the ‘224GB’ disk size increase you are likely to bump into this error message: Successfully downloaded Software version: 12.1.2 Preloading into software manager Failed to create required free space. Free space: 3191 MB, Required space: 3717 MB… Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,541,20],"tags":[510,568,353],"series":[],"class_list":["post-11466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hardware","category-security","category-software","tag-pan-os","tag-panorama","tag-upgrade"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11466"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11470,"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11466\/revisions\/11470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11466"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fseries&post=11466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}