Virtual DC

[brandonstephens922]

I have an old Sourcefire3D Virtual Defense Center that has been out out of production for several years now but I kept in my inventory. It is running 5.1 and is not currently being used but we are looking to upgrade all ASAs to the X models in order to get Firepower functionality. My question is, can we repurpose and upgrade this virtual DC to use in our new Firepower deployment?

thanks,

Brandon

[Marvin Rhoads · Accepted solution]

If you have a support contract you can upgrade it in steps to the current release (6.0.1 as of now).

I did that for our lab virtual DC starting from 5.2 > 5.3 > 5.4 > 6.0 including the interim patches along the way. It's managing both an ASA 5506-X with FirePOWER module and a 3D7125.

[brandonstephens922]

So the current license will stay with me through the upgrade? I was afraid of getting to a more current version and needing a new license. I have been wanting to get to the GUI to pull the license/SN but I can't get the web page to load. It resolves and I have CLI access but I can't get the login screen to populate.

I have the licenses from the etc/sf/license.d directory but I am unable to open a service request without a SN or PO. Would love to know for sure that I don't need a new license but it seems every corner I turn on this is a dead end.

[Marvin Rhoads · Accepted solution]

Yes - the licenses will carry through if you do an inline upgrade.

Doing the upgrade without GUI access will be tricky though.