ASA change to FTD

[faruk.zaimovic]

hello,

I have ASA 5515-X with a firepower module. What is the best practice to install an FTD image on ASA or install a firepower module?

[Rob Ingram · Accepted solution]

@faruk.zaimovic the old ASA 5515-x hardware it only supports FTD or FPR version 6.4. With FTD it does not have feature parity with the ASA image, so depending on what features you want/need you might be better to continue with ASA software with FPR module.

If you do want to use FTD image, here is the reimage guide.

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/security/firepower/quick_start/reimage/asa-ftd-reimage.html#id_51368

Or buy newer Cisco FPR1000 series hardware and run FTD version 7.x

[faruk.zaimovic]

Rob Ingram thank you very much. 

I want to use firepower module as  URL filtering, IPS and AMP.