topic Re: FMCv Licensing in Network Security

FMCv Licensing

JonathanClark — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 13:23:48 GMT

Good Day All,

Looking for some clarity of FMCv licenses.

Looking on CCW, I only see KVM and VMWare options??

Looking at moving my existing FMCv instance to Azure and I have the SF-FMC-VMW-10-K license. (Vmware only according to CCW).

Do I now need to get a new license or could I use this with BYOL?

Thanks in Advance!

Re: FMCv Licensing

rschlayer — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 14:11:31 GMT

The SKUs mentioning the hypervisor are only there for internal tracking purposes I believe. You can use the virtual license for any virtual instance regardless of hypervisor.

Re: FMCv Licensing

JonathanClark — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 14:30:52 GMT

Thank you, is there any way I can be sure about this?

Seems a bit weird that they didn't just use a univeral SKU like the other solutions.

Re: FMCv Licensing

Marvin Rhoads — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 14:59:43 GMT

Confirmed - the SKUs can be used on any platforms.

See Table 61 here: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/security/secure-firewall/guide-c07-737902.html#SKUsandorderingguidanceforCiscoSecureFirewallManagementCenter

"FMCv SKUs are not tied to specific Private or Public Cloud platforms. The SKUs listed can be used with any supported Private or Public Cloud Deployment."