ASA with FirePower service on Hyper-V

[Juraj Ban]

Hi,

One of our customers is 100% on Hyper-V and FirePower only supports VMWare?

From Internet: The FireSIGHT management system is deployed from a VMware template file in your virtual environment (no Hyper-V support just yet).

Can FirePower be run inside Hyper-V or? How do you solve this problem when customer does not have VMware?

[Karsten Iwen · Accepted solution]

You can deploy the FireSIGHT Management Center as a hardware appliance if you don't have Vmware.

[Marvin Rhoads]

I've also had customers deploy on a spare physical server using the free no frills version of VMware ESXi. The requirements for the VM aren't very much and many customers may have a spare server sitting around that fits the bill.

The smaller ASAs (5506, 5508, 5516) can be managed completely via ASDM and not use FMC. I'm not a fan of that personally since it leaves too much to chance unless the customer has a host dedicated to  ASDM that they are going to keep running 24-7 just for that.

[tato386]

Hello,

The info in this post is 8 months old as I write this.  Has there been any update on Hyper-V support?  Maybe a technique or procedure to get the FMC VM to run on Hyper-V?  I was able to get the CDA agent to run on Hyper-V with minimal amount of hacking.  Maybe somebody has done something similar with FMC?

Thanks,

Diego

[Marvin Rhoads]

No news in that regard.

We do now have the option of virtual sensors in AWS, but that's about it as far as new virtualization platform support.

[tato386]

Wow, how disappointing.  Hyper-V supports many Linux flavors so I wonder why such reluctance to support it?

Thank you. 

[Ryan Cresswell]

Still no HyperV support :(

[Guido Arturo Catalano]

:/

[dbullSVHC108]

Seems strange that they can't support Hyper-V, this would be a perfect solution for us.

[BGHSAdmin]

It is a backwards way of doing it but you could try and run ESXi server on a HyperV server and then run the Firepower Manager on it that way.  This is something I am going to work on over the next few days.  The old physical box I had running ESXi server died yesterday and everything else we have is HyperV.  So I'm going to give this a try.

http://thesolving.com/virtualization/install-vmware-esxi-hyper-v/

[DMel]

2021 and STILL no Official FMC on HyperV

https://bst.cloudapps.cisco.com/bugsearch/bug/CSCvm94701/?rfs=iqvred

However, FMC is available on Azure...so potentially a way to 'trick' FMC to thinking it is on Azure platform when actually installing on HyperV?

https://community.cisco.com/t5/network-security/vfmc-on-hyperv-are-we-there-yet/m-p/3779719