Overview
Provides instructions to deploy Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center Virtual (FMCv) on Nutanix by preparing the Nutanix environment and configuring the required resources.
Nutanix AHV is a native bare metal Type-1 hypervisor, Hyper-converged Infrastructure HCI with cloud enabled features and functionality.
This chapter describes how the Firewall Management Center Virtual functions in the Nutanix environment with AHV hypervisor, including feature support, system requirements, guidelines, and limitations.
You can deploy the Firewall Management Center Virtual on Nutanix AHV.
System Requirements
Find details about the system requirements for deploying Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center Virtual (FMCv) on Nutanix AHV, including required CPU, RAM, disk space, network interfaces, supported drivers, and important recommendations to avoid resource allocation issues and ensure optimal virtual appliance performance.
Prerequisites
Learn about the required Cisco Secure Firewall and Nutanix component versions, licensing requirements, and image download prerequisites needed before deploying Firewall Management Center Virtual.
Guidelines and Limitations
Learn about supported deployment modes and key limitations for Firewall Management Center Virtual on Nutanix, including unsupported features such as nested hypervisors, High Availability, and specific AHV capabilities.
Deploy the Firewall Management Center Virtual
Learn about the workflow to deploy Firewall Management Center Virtual on Nutanix, including reviewing prerequisites, uploading the QCOW2 image, optionally preparing a Day 0 configuration file, completing deployment, and finishing initial setup.