Supported On-Premises Firewall Management Center and Threat Defense Software for Migration

Supported Virtual On-Premises Firewall Management Center and Threat Defense

This section describes the minimum software requirements for migrating threat defense devices from the following on-premises management center version:

  • Minimum on-premises management center: 7.2

  • Minimum threat defense: 7.0.3 or 7.2 (not supported for Version 7.1)

Supported Physical On-Premises Management Center 1000/2500/4500 Model-Managed Threat Defense

You can migrate threat defense devices to the cloud-delivered Firewall Management Center from a physical on-premises management center 1000/2500/4500 model. We support a temporary upgrade from Version 7.0 to Version 7.4. You can download the upgrade package here.

Note

The physical on-premises management center 1000/2500/4500, you would have migrated devices from Version 7.4, which is unsupported for general operations but serves as an interim solution until the migration is complete. To return the on-premises management center to a supported version you must remove the re-migrated devices, reimage back to Version 7.0.x, restore from backup, and re-register the devices.

Unzip (but do not untar) the upgrade package before uploading it to the on-premises management center. To upgrade to Version 7.4, see Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center Upgrade Guide, Version 6.0-7.0.

We recommend upgrading the devices to Version 7.0.x before upgrading the on-premises management center to Version 7.4.

Important

An upgrade is required because Version 7.0 on-premises management centers do not support device migration to the cloud. Version 7.4 is only supported during the device migration and evaluation process. These on-premises management centers will not run any intermediate versions. Only standalone and high availability threat defense devices running Version 7.0.3+ (7.0.5 recommended) are eligible for migration.