Cisco Firepower Hypervisor

[FIC]

Good day

Can you please assist, i just need to find out if cisco firewpower management center can run on vmare esxi 6.5

[syeda3]

Please see below urls which might be useful to understand Firepower Management Center Virtual for VMware

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/security/firesight-management-center-virtual-appliance/118645-configure-firesight-00.html

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/security/firepower/quick_start/vmware/fmcv/FMCv-quick.html

Hope to help.

[nspasov · Accepted solution]

Not yet. At the moment, the latest version (6.1.0.1) of FMC only supports esxi 6.0. The best place to check such information is the release notes for the particular product. Here is a link to the release notes for the 6.1.0.1 version:

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/security/firepower/610/6101/relnotes/Firepower_System_Release_Notes_Version_6101.html

With that said, I have it running on esxi 6.5 in my home lab without any problems. However, it is not a supported version thus, it is not recommended that you do this in production environment. 

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[Marvin Rhoads]

Like Neno said is the official answer.

The release notes generally reflect what Cisco has tested and validated. Departure from the validated version introduces some technical risk. Depending on your risk acceptance level, that may or may not be OK in your environment.

I can confirm that I also have it running fine (so far!) on an ESXi 6.5 server.

[Basavaraj Ningappa]

Hello Marvin,

Hope your doing great.

I'm trying to install FMCv6.2.2 in vmware 6.5, using OVF deploy option in vmware, i'm not able to install it successfully, can you tell me what are the steps you followed when you deployed FMCv in 6.5 vmware version

Thank you so much

Basavaraj

[nspasov]

What error(s) are you getting when trying to deploy the FMC in ESXi 6.5?

[Marvin Rhoads]

I don't recall the exact steps - it's been over a year. However I'm pretty sure I didn't vary from the installation guide.

If you wait a month or so for 6.2.3 you _might_ see ESXi 6.5 on the supported list.