FTD Appliance upgrade process

[BRIAN O'LOUGHLIN]

Hello, I would like to know what he process is for upgrading a site in FTD from a 5506x to a larger appliance.  We're planning to add more bandwidth and will likely need more capable hardware.  I'm hoping I can just migrate my settings to the new device in FTD but I haven't seen that it is possible.  Is this possible, and if not how can I do this swap with minimum downtime?

TIA

[Abheesh Kumar]

Hi Brian,

Migration is pretty straightforward but before that you need to  choose the appropriate FTD model depends upon the traffic on the site.

 Appliance Performance Highlights

Features

Cisco Firepower Model

Cisco ASA 5500-FTD-X Model

2110

2120

2130

2140

4110

4120

4140

4150

9300 with 1 SM-24 Module

9300 with 1 SM-36 Module

9300 with 1 SM-44 Module

9300 with 3 SM-44 Modules

5506-FTD-X

5506W-FTD-X

5506H-FTD-X

5508-FTD-X

5516-FTD-X

5525-FTD-X

5545-FTD-X

5555-FTD-X

Throughput FW + AVC (Cisco Firepower Threat Defense)1

2.0 Gbps

3 Gbps

4.75 Gbps

8.5 Gbps

12 Gbps

20 Gbps

25 Gbps

30 Gbps

30 Gbps

42 Gbps

54 Gbps

135 Gbps

250 Mbps

250 Mbps

250 Mbps

450 Mbps

850 Mbps

1100 Mbps

1500 Mbps

1750 Mbps

Throughput: FW + AVC + NGIPS (Cisco Firepower Threat Defense)1

2.0 Gbps

3 Gbps

4.75 Gbps

8.5 Gbps

10 Gbps

15 Gbps

20 Gbps

24 Gbps

24 Gbps

34 Gbps

53 Gbps

133 Gbps

125 Mbps

125 Mbps

125 Mbps

250 Mbps

450 Mbps

650 Mbps

1000 Mbps

1250 Mbps

HTH

Abheesh