You mentioned you are using a virtual FMC in you lab. We found out after Cisco recommended to us to purchase that you can't run redundancy or HA between two virtual FMCs. You have to have two hardware FMCs to have FMC HA.
Hi David, this is accurate. Only the FMC appliances natively support HA, with the exception of the 750 which is EOS. www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/security/firesight-management-center/datasheet-c78-736775.html There are other reasons why you would want to go with appliances over virtual FMC. The datasheet info in the above link provides some insight into EPS and Database size. Thanks
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You mentioned you are using a virtual FMC in you lab. We found out after Cisco recommended to us to purchase that you can't run redundancy or HA between two virtual FMCs. You have to have two hardware FMCs to have FMC HA.
Hi David, this is accurate. Only the FMC appliances natively support HA, with the exception of the 750 which is EOS.
www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/security/firesight-management-center/datasheet-c78-736775.html
There are other reasons why you would want to go with appliances over virtual FMC. The datasheet info in the above link provides some insight into EPS and Database size.
Thanks
Backup FMC regularly and snapshot the FMC
@@RogueDire Absolutely, backup regularly and schedule that!