Cisco Cisco ASA 5512-X Adaptive Security Appliance

 lists the VMware feature support for the ASA 1000V.

 

This section describes how to upgrade to the latest version and includes the following topics:

Viewing Your Current Version, page 7

Upgrading the ASA and ASDM Images, page 7

For ASDM procedures, see the  ASDM release notes.

Use the show version command to verify the software version of your ASA. 

This section describes how to install the ASDM and ASA images using TFTP. For FTP or HTTP, see the 
“Managing Software and Configurations” chapter in the Cisco ASA 1000V CLI Configuration Guide for 
ASDM Mode.

Cold clone 

The VM is powered off before 
cloning.

Yes

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DRS

Used for dynamic resource 
scheduling and distributed power 
management. 

Yes

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Hot clone 

The VM is running during 
cloning.

No

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Snapshot

Freezes the VM for a few 
seconds. You may loose traffic. 
Failover may occur. 

See comment.

Use with care.

VM migration

Used for VM migration.

Yes

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vMotion

Used for live migration of VMs. Yes

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VMware FT

Used for HA for VMs.

No

Use ASA failover for ASA VM failures.

VMware HA

Used for ESX and server 
failures.

Yes

Use ASA failover for ASA VM failures.

VMware HA with 
VM heartbeats 

Used for VM failures.

No

Use ASA failover for ASA VM failures.