The Firewall Management Center can manage any device, physical or virtual, currently supported by the system:

• Firewall Threat Defense—Provides a unified next-generation firewall and next-generation IPS device.

• Firewall Threat Defense Virtual—A 64-bit virtual device that is designed to work in multiple hypervisor environments, reduce administrative overhead, and increase operational efficiency.

• Cisco ASA with FirePOWER Services (or an ASA FirePOWER module)—Provides the first-line system policy and passes traffic to the system for discovery and access control. However, you cannot use the Firewall Management Center web interface to configure ASA FirePOWER interfaces. Cisco ASA with FirePOWER Services has a software and CLI unique to the ASA platform that you can use to install the system and to perform other platform-specific administrative tasks.

• 7000 and 8000 Series appliances—Physical devices purpose-built for the system. 7000 and 8000 Series devices have a range of throughputs, but share most of the same capabilities. In general, 8000 Series devices are more powerful than 7000 Series devices; they also support additional features such as 8000 Series fastpath rules, link aggregation, and stacking. You must configure remote management on the device before you can register the device to the Firewall Management Center.

• NGIPSv—A 64-bit virtual device deployed in the VMware VSphere environment. NGIPSv devices do not support any of the system’s hardware-based features such as redundancy and resource sharing, switching, and routing.

To register managed devices to the Firewall Management Center use the Devices > Device Management page on the Firewall Management Center GUI; see the device management information in the Secure Firewall Management Center Configuration Guide for your version.