FMCv Licensing

[JonathanClark]

Good Day All,

Looking for some clarity of FMCv licenses.

Looking on CCW, I only see KVM and VMWare options??

Looking at moving my existing FMCv instance to Azure and I have the SF-FMC-VMW-10-K license. (Vmware only according to CCW).

Do I now need to get a new license or could I use this with BYOL?

Thanks in Advance!

[rschlayer]

The SKUs mentioning the hypervisor are only there for internal tracking purposes I believe. You can use the virtual license for any virtual instance regardless of hypervisor.

[JonathanClark]

Thank you, is there any way I can be sure about this?

Seems a bit weird that they didn't just use a univeral SKU like the other solutions.

[Marvin Rhoads · Accepted solution]

Confirmed - the SKUs can be used on any platforms. 

See Table 61 here: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/security/secure-firewall/guide-c07-737902.html#SKUsandorderingguidanceforCiscoSecureFirewallManagementCenter

"FMCv SKUs are not tied to specific Private or Public Cloud platforms. The SKUs listed can be used with any supported Private or Public Cloud Deployment."