FirePower Threat Defense VM

[pick25690]

Hi guys,

I am starting to study for CCIE security and trying to install the FTD virtual appliances. No matter what I try or what version I use it always crashes. IT goes through the installation and gets to a certain point and displays an error about putting the crashinfo in flash, then all the service get stopped and the FTD VM reboots. It just continues in this loop.

I can't even get any information of why it is crashing as as soon as I find something in the CLI and try to take a screenshot it reboots.

Any help on this matter would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Dan 

[Marvin Rhoads]

What virtualization environment and version are you using?

[pick25690]

Hi Marvin,

I am using VMware workstation 12.5.6. I have also tried to install it on a nested ESXI 6.5 host which has the same error.

It installs OK on VirtualBox but doesn't configure the network settings properly as I can not ping anything from it and can't ping the device itself from the host only network adaptor.

Thanks,

Dan 

[Marvin Rhoads]

The FTDv is pretty sensitive to your virtualization settings. Have you reviewed the notes in the Quick Start Guide? It can be found here:

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/security/firepower/quick_start/vmware/ftdv/ftdv-vmware-qsg.html

Also, the Release Notes indicate that compatibility is only for ESXi 5.5 and 6.0, AWS or KVM.

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/security/firepower/620/6201/relnotes/Firepower_Release_Notes_Version_620x/supported_platforms_and_environments.html

Sometimes we can safely ignore that for lab environments but not always - it depends on how tightly coupled the product is with features in the virtualization environment.

[pick25690]

Thanks Marvin. 

I will try and get hold of an ESXI 5.5 ISO and attempt the install on there. 

[pick25690]

I have tried installing it on ESXI 5.5 and 6, still getting the same error where it is crashing. Not sure what else to try. 

[Marvin Rhoads]

Can you confirm the file you are using?

It should be "Cisco_Firepower_Threat_Defense_Virtual-6.2.0-363.tar.gz", which unzips and untars to a VMDK and two pair of MF and OVF files. Which OVF are you trying? (The VI one has a script built-in to configure the bootstrap parameters.)

The download location is here:

https://software.cisco.com/download/release.html?mdfid=286306503&flowid=79503&softwareid=286306337&release=6.1.0.4&relind=AVAILABLE&rellifecycle=&reltype=latest

Also verify the MD5 is 535c094e84eafa3f67e828c38a88369d

[pick25690]

Checked the MD5 of the tar.gz download and it matches what you put. 

It is the ESXI file that I am trying to deploy, the VI one just comes up with invalid property at line 559 (or a number similar to that). 

The ESXI files SHA hash matches that of the one in the manifest file. It just will not install for me on VMware, I have tried on different computers. It works fine on VirtualBox but doesn't populate the management interface with an IP address, if I go into the shell and issue ifconfig I can see the IP address that I have assigned during setup is assigned to br1. I can't ping anything from it only itself and can't add it to FMC.

[pick25690]

I have managed to get it up and running from VirtualBox now and added to FMC, messed around with the network settings and looks like I had to select promiscuous mode.

Thanks for your help and quick replies to my issue.

Cheers,

Dan 

[idir.anas.alc]

Hi pick25690 

I want to set a lab for Cisco FTD on VirtualBox. I would really appreciate if you could share some details on how to do this.

Thanks in Advance.

ANAS

[stevecharu]

could you please let me know how did you do that in oracle VB and network settings, Or please post your topology

[Drthrax]

Hi , This happens when you don't give enough resources to the VM. Try giving the VM 10 GB of ram and I think that should work.

[Marvin Rhoads]

The original post is almost 3 years old - I think he's figured it out by now or moved on. :)

[Drthrax]

Haha you never know maybe he gave up his network career for this , now he has a chance of gaining it back