Cisco ESA migration

[Rick187]

Hi all,

Hope you all are doing great. Not sure if this is the correct location, feel free to move the question to another location if not.

I am currently in the process of migrating a physical appliance with AsyncOS v.7 to a virtual appliance with AsyncOS v.13 and was wondering whether there would be any incompatibilities with regard to migrating the configuration.

Is there any recommended path to follow to perform this migration or would be enough to extract the config file from the device and then import them into the virtual appliance? Any changes that should be done on the config files before importing?

Is there anything else that should be taken into account for the migration?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

[balaji.bandi · Accepted solution]

yes it will be, 7 config not compatable to v13  ( means you can not take backup of v7 and install on v13)

what you need to do is install v7, move the config, and follow the upgrade path to v13.

how are you managing this device using SMA ? then that required to uplift too.

some example :

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/security/email-security-appliance/214131-how-to-load-or-migrate-esa-configuration.html