Recommendation upgrade Firepower

[SupportAC]

Hi,

We have the version Virtual defence center (64but) 5.4.1.6. We would like to upgrade the firepower but we would need to know what is the recommended version and the requisites minimum for virtual machine. version 6 is the recommended?

Thanks

[Marvin Rhoads · Accepted solution]

With FirePOWER Management Center (current name for the product formerly known as Defense Center), the recommended version is the most recent one - currently 6.2.0.

There is an upgrade path description in the release notes here:

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/security/firepower/620/relnotes/Firepower_System_Release_Notes_Version_620/important_update_notes.html#id_38002

Minimum resource requirements are 8 GB ior RAM and 4 vCPUs but it's generally recommended to at least double the RAM and increase the vCPUs to 8 if possible. The disk is fixed at 250 GB.

Here's the guide with the resource specification:

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/security/firepower/quick_start/vmware/fmcv/FMCv-quick/intro-virtual.html