topic Re: FMC (Virtual) and FTD deployement with High Availability in Network Security

FMC (Virtual) and FTD deployement with High Availability

lalitgu@hcl.com — Fri, 21 Feb 2020 16:12:08 GMT

I have to deploy FMC (Virtual) with 2 FTD appliance at primary DC and the same setup at secondary DC. How can I deploy the overall setup with high availability ? Please advise

Re: FMC (Virtual) and FTD deployement with High Availability

Raghunath Kulkarni — Thu, 06 Sep 2018 02:13:51 GMT

Hi,

The HA setup is not supported between FMC if they are virtual. The FMC HA is available only for hardware FMC only.

As far as FTD is concerned, the HA is supported for both virtual as well as hardware version. The sample configuration is available in:

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/security/firepower-management-center/212699-configure-ftd-high-availability-on-firep.html

Hope this helps.

Re: FMC (Virtual) and FTD deployement with High Availability

lalitgu@hcl.com — Mon, 24 Sep 2018 19:00:41 GMT

Hi Raghunath,

Thanks for your reply.

There is another query regarding managing Firepower threat defense appliance through FMC.

Can we define more than one manager for Firepower threat defence appliance ?

Re: FMC (Virtual) and FTD deployement with High Availability

lalitgu@hcl.com — Mon, 24 Sep 2018 19:00:46 GMT

Hi Raghunath,

Thanks for your reply.

There is another query regarding managing Firepower threat defense appliance through FMC.

Can we define more than one manager for Firepower threat defense appliance ?

Re: FMC (Virtual) and FTD deployement with High Availability

lalitgu@hcl.com — Mon, 24 Sep 2018 19:01:18 GMT

Hi Raghunath,

Thanks for your reply.

There is another query regarding managing Firepower threat defense appliance through Firepower Management Center

Can we define more than one manager for Firepower threat defense appliance ?

Re: FMC (Virtual) and FTD deployement with High Availability

Raghunath Kulkarni — Tue, 25 Sep 2018 00:56:38 GMT

At any given point in time, the Sourcefire devices will have only 1 FMC as manager excluding HA where the standby FMC will also be shown in the output of "show managers"