topic FDM vs FMC feature support in Network Security

FDM vs FMC feature support

janvanek — Thu, 05 Oct 2023 07:18:35 GMT

Hello community,

We have two possibitity how to manage FTD

1) FDM - local management

2) FMC

I'm surprised that I can't find a simple overview of limitations and unsupported functions that FDM has compared to FMC.

I only know about several features unsupported (or limited) on FDM such as QoS, Clustering, external admin authentication/authorization, limited IPS setting...

Does anyone happen to have a magical comparison summary?

Thank you all in advance

Jan

Re: FDM vs FMC feature support

Marvin Rhoads — Thu, 05 Oct 2023 17:37:28 GMT

Unfortunately Cisco does not publish a public document with this comparison. I always discourage FDM for anything other than home or lab use. FMC (customer-managed or cloud-delivered SaaS) will always server you better in a production deployment.

Re: FDM vs FMC feature support

janvanek — Mon, 09 Oct 2023 06:20:44 GMT

Hello Marvin, thx for your reply. I would never use FDM in production. However, I often encounter customer requests and simply look for arguments why they should purchase FMC.

Jan

4Admin: You can close this ticket.

Re: FDM vs FMC feature support

Marvin Rhoads — Mon, 09 Oct 2023 10:03:57 GMT

@janvanek if you are a partner, you can reference a non-public document in SalesConnect with a extensive feature comparison.

https://salesconnect.cisco.com/Security/s/technical-programs-for-cisco-secure-fire (Cisco partner or employee level access required)

Re: FDM vs FMC feature support

janvanek — Mon, 09 Oct 2023 10:31:03 GMT

Exellent! the document "Secure Firewall Features Matrix" is exactly what I am looking for!

Thank you so much