Overview

Provides instructions to deploy Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center Virtual (FMCv) on KVM by preparing the KVM environment and configuring the required resources.

Overview

Learn how to prepare a KVM environment and meet system and resource requirements for Management Center Virtual. Learn about supported configurations, memory and CPU allocations, storage requrements, and upgrade considerations to ensure a successful deployment.

Prerequisites

Learn about the prerequisites for deploying Management Center Virtual on KVM. Understand how to install the required packages, obtain the qcow2 image, and apply recommended host tuning and optimization settings to prepare your Linux environment for deployment.

Guidelines and Limitations

Consider these guidelines and limitations for deploying Management Center Virtual on KVM. Learn about unsupported configurations, appliance restrictions, and high availability and licensing requirements to plan your deployment correctly.

Prepare the Day 0 Configuration File

Learn how to create and apply a Day 0 configuration file to automate the initial setup of Management Center Virtual. Understand how to configure host name, administrator password, network settings, and how to convert the file to an ISO file and attach it for use at first boot.

Deploy the Firewall Management Center Virtual

Learn how to deploy Management Center Virtual on KVM using a deployment script or Virtual Machine Manager. Understand how to configure disk caching, CPU, memory, storage, networking, serial console, watchdog, and optional Day 0 ISO settings to create and launch the virtual machine correctly.

Deploy Without Using the Day 0 Configuration File

Learn how to complete the initial setup of Management Center Virtual without a Day 0 configuration file. understand how to configure network settings through the CLI script, then access the web interface to change the administrator password, accept the EULA, and finalize system settings for management network connectivity.