ASA & FTD LABs

[Fantas]

Hi,

I am day to day using Cisco ASAs and FTD / FMC for my company and gets lot of implementation requests and troubleshooting's.

Is there Cisco LAB so that I can get above Cisco devices and test scenarios.

I can buy from Cisco if they offer such services

Or if there is option to build my own private lab other than GNS3 and vmware please

[Rob Ingram]

Hi,

You could use Cisco dcloud which has labs with scenarios on the technologies you mention and more, link here. You can also download ASAv and run this in GNS3 or download virtual FTD/FMC and run in vmware.

HTH

[Fantas]

Yes but I dont think dcloud have ASAs for practice.

[Rob Ingram]

Then you are best off running ASA in a virtual environment, GNS3/VIRL/EVE etc, you can build your own labs. Cisco will mostly have dcloud labs on their latest tech, e.g. Firepower.

[josedelpino]

Hi,

I personaly use EVE-NG to create my own labs and I highly recommend it. You only need a PC/Server with enough muscle to handle the topology, approx 8GB of RAM for the FMC, 8GB per FTD and 2GB per ASA.