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Cisco Secure Access Help

Virtual Appliances

Updated: August 24, 2026

Provides an overview of Virtual Appliances in Cisco Secure Access, including Get Started with Virtual Appliances, Manage VAs in Secure Access, and Deploy Virtual Appliances. It outlines the concepts, configuration tasks, and operational guidance presented in this chapter.

    Get Started with Virtual Appliances

    Describes Get Started with Virtual Appliances in Cisco Secure Access. Cisco Secure Access Virtual Appliances (VAs) are lightweight virtual machines.

    Manage VAs in Secure Access

    Describes Manage VAs in Secure Access. Cisco Secure Access Virtual Appliances (VAs) are lightweight virtual machines that function as conditional DNS forwarders on your network.

    Deploy Virtual Appliances

    Describes Deploy Virtual Appliances in Cisco Secure Access. Secure Access requires that you deploy two Virtual Appliances (VAs) for a given site.

    Configure Virtual Appliances

    Describes Configure Virtual Appliances in Cisco Secure Access. Configure your Cisco Secure Access Virtual Appliances (VAs) deployed in VMWare, Hyper-V, KVM, Azure, AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Nutanix, or Alibaba Cloud.

    Local DNS Forwarding

    Describes Local DNS Forwarding in Cisco Secure Access. Cisco Secure Access Virtual Appliances (VAs) are conditional DNS forwarders in your network, forwarding public DNS queries to Secure Access, and local DNS queries to your existing local DNS servers and forwarders, respectively.

    Test Virtual Appliance Deployments

    Describes Test Virtual Appliance Deployments in Cisco Secure Access. After you deploy the Cisco Secure Access Virtual Appliances (VAs) in your environment and set up internal domains in Secure Access, we recommend that you test your Virtual Appliances.

    SNMP Monitoring for Virtual Appliances

    Describes SNMP Monitoring for Virtual Appliances in Cisco Secure Access. The Cisco Secure Access Virtual appliances (VAs) support the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP), including versions SNMPv2c and SNMPv3.

    Troubleshoot Virtual Appliances

    Describes Troubleshoot Virtual Appliances in Cisco Secure Access. Log in to your Cisco Secure Access Virtual Appliance (VA) to diagnose error conditions on the Virtual Appliance.