Licenses Issue

[Yasindu Samarawickrama99]

We have an FMC VM and an ASA 5516-x with Firepower services. We have been using classic licenses until now. However, that version of the license is reaching the end of support. Therefore, we need to purchase new replacement model SKUs that require a Smart Account. After assigning the licenses to the Smart Account, I registered the FMC using the Smart Account, but the licenses are not appearing in the FMC's Smart Licenses session. I assumed this happened because of Classic licenses are still being used by the FMC. I want to know if there is any way to remove these classic licenses and start using the Smart Licenses.

[Yasindu Samarawickrama99]

I found the answer to this issue from Cisco TAC. Cisco ASA firewalls with Firepower services do not support smart licenses. Even though the "fs-vmw-2-sw-k9" SKU has reached its end of support, firewalls managed by FMC with a valid contract can still get support for SFR-related issues until the ASA 5516-X reaches its end of support.
However, Cisco announced that the replacement model ("sf-fmc-vmw") is not compatible with ASA firewalls with Firepower services. I don't understand why Cisco would announce a product that cannot replace every feature of the existing one.