Overview
Learn about the supported and unsupported VMware features for Management Center Virtual deployments. Use this information to plan cloning, migration, high availability, and other VMware operations in your environment.
The following table lists the VMware feature support for the Firewall Management Center Virtual.
| Feature |
Description |
Support (Yes/No) |
Comment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cold Clone |
The VM is powered off during cloning. |
No |
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| Hot add |
The VM is running during an addition. |
No |
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| Hot clone |
The VM is running during cloning. |
No |
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| Hot removal |
The VM is running during removal. |
No |
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| Snapshots |
The VM freezes for a few seconds. |
No |
There is a risk of out-of-sync situations between the FMC and managed devices. See Snapshots Support . |
| Suspend and resume |
The VM is suspended, then resumed. |
Yes |
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| vCloud Director |
Allows automatic deployment of VMs. |
No |
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| VM migration |
The VM is powered off during migration. |
Yes |
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| vMotion |
Used for live migration of VMs. |
Yes |
Use shared storage. See vMotion Support. |
| VMware FT |
Used for HA on VMs. |
No |
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| VMware HA |
Used for ESXi and server failures. |
Yes |
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| VMware HA with VM heartbeats |
Used for VM failures. |
No |
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| VMware vSphere Standalone Windows Client |
Used to deploy VMs. |
Yes |
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| VMware vSphere Web Client |
Used to deploy VMs. |
Yes |
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