topic FMC on a Mac? in Network Security

FMC on a Mac?

Pat Fahey — Sun, 10 Mar 2019 13:49:23 GMT

I am not that familiar with VMware, and I try to use Macs where possible.

It looks like the virtual FMC requires VMware. Does anyone know if VMware Fusion on OSX will host it?

Thanks. -Pat

Does Fusion run standard ESXi

Philip D'Ath — Thu, 20 Apr 2017 07:25:02 GMT

Does Fusion run standard ESXi server images?

That is what I was hoping

Pat Fahey — Thu, 27 Apr 2017 21:16:16 GMT

That is what I was hoping someone who has done this before can tell us.

If anyone is interested, I

Pat Fahey — Wed, 02 Aug 2017 18:11:02 GMT

If anyone is interested, I ended up hosting FMC on a VirtualBox VM on an I7 2012 Mac Mini. w/16GB RAM and 15TB Thunderbolt-attached storage.

It runs very well. Take lots of snapshots to be safe.

2 cores and 4GB Ram works well for the FMC VM. Although I created the initial disk too small and had to migrate to a larger disk. It's currently on a 250GB partition.

It's pretty impressive considering that box is also hosting a Win2008 Server/SQL Database, and SecurityOnion IDS (using 6 GbE ports).

just for reference.. i

ammann9113 — Fri, 04 Aug 2017 18:46:43 GMT

just for reference.. i installed the fmc vm in vmware fusion once but just as a quick and dirty playground. although i didnt test everything it seemed to work just fine

Just keep in mind that this

Oliver Kaiser — Sat, 05 Aug 2017 21:30:19 GMT

Just keep in mind that this is not a supported scenario. I dont think you will face any issues if you need a cisco support case but keep that in mind if that is an installation for your prod environment and not just lab infra.

In conclusion ...

Pat Fahey — Sun, 14 Oct 2018 16:56:25 GMT

I thought I would post an update to close out this thread.

I've been running FMC on VirtualBox on a mac Mini (4-core, 16GB) and have had no problems. The software has run fine and I haven't had any problems with support.

-Pat