Cisco Cisco Firepower Management Center 4000

Series 3 is the third series of Cisco FirePOWER physical appliances. All 7000 Series and 8000 Series 
devices are Series 3 appliances. 8000 Series devices are more powerful and support a few features that 
7000 Series devices do not.

You can deploy 64-bit virtual Defense Centers and managed devices as ESXi hosts using the VMware 
vSphere Hypervisor or vCloud Director environments. 

Regardless of the licenses installed and applied, virtual appliances do not support any of the system’s 
hardware-based features: redundancy and resource sharing, switching, routing, and so on. Also, virtual 
devices do not have web interfaces.

You can install Sourcefire Software for  X-Series on a Blue Coat X-Series platform. This software-based 
appliance functions similarly to a virtual managed device. Regardless of the licenses installed and 
applied, Sourcefire Software for  X-Series does not support any of the following features:

Sourcefire Software for  X-Series does not support the system’s hardware-based features: clustering, 
stacking, switching, routing, VPN, NAT, and so on.

You cannot use Sourcefire Software for  X-Series to filter network traffic based on its country or 
continent of origin or destination (geolocation-based access control).

You cannot use the Defense Center web interface to configure Sourcefire Software for  X-Series 
interfaces.

You cannot use the Defense Center to shut down, restart, or otherwise manage Sourcefire Software 
for  X-Series processes.

You cannot use the Defense Center to create backups from or restore backups to Sourcefire Software 
for  X-Series.

You cannot apply health or system policies to Sourcefire Software for  X-Series. This includes 
managing time settings.

Sourcefire Software for  X-Series does not have a web interface. However, it has a command line 
interface (CLI) unique to the X-Series platform. You use this CLI to install the system and to perform 
other platform-specific administrative tasks, such as:

creating Virtual Appliance Processor (VAP) groups, which allow you to take advantage of the 
X-Series platform’s load balancing and redundancy benefits (comparable to Cisco physical device 
clustering)

configuring passive and inline sensing interfaces, including configuring the interface’s maximum 
transmission unit (MTU)

managing processes

managing time settings, including NTP settings