I assume the ASA's don't run natively on VMware or Xen, I assume you have to use something like GNS3. I think that would be fine for testing, but in real world production running an ASA on GNS3 under an another OS seems like a bad idea. I hope Cisco will come out with Virtual Appliances for some of their products like they did for the Nexus 1000V.
-Mike -----Original Message----- From: Daryl G. Jurbala [mailto:da...@introspect.net] Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2010 10:54 AM To: Xavier Beaudouin Cc: nanog Subject: Re: Appliance Vs Software based routers On Aug 4, 2010, at 9:53 AM, Xavier Beaudouin wrote: > > Le 4 août 2010 à 15:14, Mirko Maffioli a écrit : > >> 2010/7/25 Laurens Vets <laur...@daemon.be>: >>> >>> Cisco PIX: no, Cisco ASA: yes. It even runs under VMware... It's however >>> very hackish... :) >> >> Cisco ASA under VMware?? :| > > CiscoASA is based on x86, there is no reasons you cannot run this into VMWare > or Xen... If that were the only qualification, PIX builds for the 515s would run under VMWare or XEN as well. Maybe they do, but I've never seen it.
