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Firepower Management Center Model Migration Guide

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Firepower Management Center Model Migration Guide

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About Firepower Management Center Model Migration

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Updated:
March 30, 2022

Chapter: About Firepower Management Center Model Migration

About Firepower Management Center Model Migration

The Firepower Management Center model migration workflow enables you to migrate configurations and events from one Firepower Management Center model to an equivelent or higher-capacity Firepower Management Center model using the backup and restore feature.


Note

Migration of FMCv on VMware to either KVM or Azure and vice versa is not supported.

If you want support for Azure or other public clouds, we recommend that you open a Firestarter request in the Feature Request queue at https://firestarter.cisco.com.

Supported Migration Paths

The following table lists the supported target Firepower Management Center models you can migrate to from your source (current) Firepower Management Center model.


Note

FMCv refers to Firepower Management Center Virtual using VMware deployments.

Number of Supported Managed Devices

Source Model

 Target Model

FMCv

FMC 1600

FMC 2600

FMC 4600

FMCv 300
2 FMCv 2 — Yes Yes Yes Yes
10 FMCv 10 — Yes Yes Yes Yes
25 FMCv 25 — Yes Yes Yes Yes
50 FMC 1000 — Yes Yes Yes Yes
50 FMC 1600 — — Yes Yes Yes
250 FMC 2000 — — Yes Yes Yes
300 FMC 2500 — — Yes Yes Yes
300 FMC 2600 — — — Yes Yes
300 FMCv 300 — — Yes Yes —
750 FMC 4000 — — — Yes —
750 FMC 4500 — — — Yes —

Best Practices

Note the following guidelines and limitations for the Firepower Management Center model migration workflow:

  • If you need to change the Firepower Management Center IP after migration, you must also update the NAT configuration between the FMC and its managed devices (for more information, see NAT Environments).

  • The Firepower Management Center model migration workflow is supported with all FMC licensing modes - evaluation, connected, and SLR.

  • You must de-register licenses from the source FMC and register licenses in the target FMC after migration.

History for Firepower Management Center Model Migration

Feature

Version

Details

Firepower Management Center Model Migration

6.5

FMC model migration workflow functionality first introduced

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