FMC Version Suggestions for Upgrade

[rsharp001]

Hi all -

I am beginning a project to migrate from 6.6.5, that is controlling an old AMP8150 and a pair of FTD1100s.  The Migration is away from the 8150 and a pair of ASA5500 to the Secure Firewall 3100 series, I have been reading the documentation I'll have to stand up a FMC 7.1 or above to control the new units (they shipped with 7.1 installed).  My understanding is that the older unit cannot be managed by a version above 6.6.5 so I'm looking at running 2 FMCs during the process.  I want to migrate my objects and current rules to minimize some of the hand configuration, I plan to run a test import of the current backup.  Eventually I will move the 1100s over to the new install, but that will be planned for after since it'll have some downtime.

- I'm looking to see what version of FMC you all are using 7.1 or 2?

- Any landmines you all may have stepped on that I could avoid?

- Better way you all may have done this?

Thank you!

[Marvin Rhoads]

@Massimo Baschieri I feel your pain. I have personally brought this up as a concern with multiple Cisco TMEs, SEs, product managers etc. over the years (>20) and seen zero progress on this practice changing. That tells me it's just not a priority with Cisco.

I get the message they would like you to purchase the premium support package like High Touch Technical Support (HTTS) and then have a designated Cisco engineer available to you to do a bug scrub from their perspective of being able to see every bug - internal and public.