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Firepower 7000 and 8000 Series Installation Guide
Chapter 1 Introduction to the Firepower System
Firepower System Appliances
Physical managed devices come in a range of throughputs and have a range of capabilities. Physical
Firepower Management Centers also have a range of device management, event storage, and host and
user monitoring capabilities.
You can also deploy 64-bit
virtual
Firepower Management Centers and
virtual
Firepower managed
devices as ESXi hosts using the VMware vSphere Hypervisor or vCloud Director environment.
Either type of Management Center (physical or virtual) can manage any type of device: physical, virtual,
and Cisco ASA with FirePOWER Services. Note, however, that many Firepower System capabilities are
appliance dependent.
For more information on Firepower System appliances, including the features and capabilities they
support, see:
•
7000 and 8000 Series Appliances, page 1-3
•
•
Cisco ASA with FirePOWER Services, page 1-3
•
Appliances Delivered with Version 6.0, page 1-4
•
Supported Capabilities by Firepower Management Center Model, page 1-5
•
Supported Capabilities by Managed Device Model, page 1-7
7000 and 8000 Series Appliances
The 7000 and 8000 Series are Firepower physical appliances. Firepower 8000 Series devices are more
powerful and support a few features that Firepower 7000 Series devices do not. For detailed information
on 7000 and 8000 Series appliances, see the
Firepower 7000 and 8000 Series Installation Guide
.
Virtual Appliances
You can deploy 64-bit virtual Firepower Management Center and managed devices as ESXi hosts using
the VMware vSphere Hypervisor or vCloud Director environments.
Regardless of the licenses installed and applied, virtual appliances do not support any of the system’s
hardware-based features: redundancy and resource sharing, switching, routing, and so on. Also, virtual
devices do not have web interfaces. For detailed information on virtual appliances, see the
Firepower
NGIPSv for VMware Quick Start Guide
.
Cisco ASA with FirePOWER Services
Cisco ASA with FirePOWER Services (ASA FirePOWER devices) functions similarly to a managed
device. In this deployment, the ASA device provides the first-line system policy and passes traffic to the
Firepower System for access control, intrusion detection and prevention, discovery, and advanced
malware protection. See the
Version 6.0 Firepower System Appliances
table for a list of supported ASA
models.
Regardless of the licenses installed and applied, ASA FirePOWER devices do not support any of the
following Firepower System features: