Licensing for high availability firewall solution

[Shakeeb AlDari]

Hi security experts,

i have a deployed scenario for ASA5540-BUN-K9 as active/active or active standby, i have been requested to add an SSL anycnnect premium license for 500 users assosiated with mobile license, shall i order one license for both boxes or order two license ( one for each)

I appriciate you suggestions

Thanks

[Julio Carvajal · Accepted solution]

Hello,

As long as you run 8.3.1 or higher you will be able to start sharing licenses between failover mates so no need to have one license per box.

Looking for some Networking Assistance? 
Contact me directly at jcarvaja@laguiadelnetworking.com

I will fix your problem ASAP.

Cheers,

Julio Carvajal Segura
http://laguiadelnetworking.com

[Shakeeb AlDari]

Thank you jcarvaja, i digged in the subject and all refered the same consept.

[Julio Carvajal]

A pleasure to help

Looking for some Networking Assistance? 
Contact me directly at jcarvaja@laguiadelnetworking.com

I will fix your problem ASAP.

Cheers,

Julio Carvajal Segura
http://laguiadelnetworking.com

[Jernej Vodopivec]

Be careful: remote access VPN is not (yet) supported in multi context mode.

Multiple context mode does not support the following features:
?RIP
?OSPFv3. (OSPFv2 is supported.)
?Multicast routing
?Threat Detection
?Unified Communications
?QoS
?Remote access VPN. (Site-to-site VPN is supported.)