Move a FTD H/A pair to a separate FMC

[Chess Norris]

Hello,

Today we manage 3 FTD H/A pairs with a single FMC. We now want to move one of the H/A pair and managed that it with a separate FMC. What is the best way to achieve this with minimal production impact?

My plan was to the following steps

1. Backup the device configuration of the FTD's that we want to move 
2. Break the failover on the FTD pair we want to move and then unregister the devices from the current FMC
3. Add the FTD's to the new FMC
4. Re-establish failover on the FTD's we just moved

Would that be the correct way to do it or is it a better/safer way?

Thanks

/Chess

[balaji.bandi · Accepted solution]

Hope you also moving the FMC configuration, since most of the data stored in FMC - Like Policies objects and rest.

Once that is done, you can unregister from old FMC and register with new FMC Manager config

[Chess Norris]

Thank you @balaji.bandi . Yes, we will definitely move the FMC configuration. I guess we will need to take a manual backup and then - after  restoring the configuration - delete everything related to the previous devices?

From what I know, snapshots are not recommended/supported for FMC backups?

Thanks

/Chess

[balaji.bandi]

back up and restore and fintune is the way forward.