Cisco Adaptive Security Virtual Appliance (ASAv10 / ASAv30) + vCenter Site Recovery Manager (SRM)

3 Things to keep in mind when building SRM plan for Cisco virtual ASAv10 & ASAv30 Firewalls.

  • Make sure you allocate right number of minimum and maximum CPU (command: show vm can be used to validate the configuration).
  • Instead of powering off, select option (or configure) to disconnect Virtual Firewall.
  • Configure to skip “vm tools” install.

**You cannot SRM ASA 1000v firewall.

Cisco ASA AnyConnect / SSL – Authenticate using RSA token & Active Directory combined

Step 1
 Configure AAA for RSA & Active Directory
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 aaa-server RSA_RADIUS protocol radius
 aaa-server RSA_RADIUS (INSIDE) host 10.10.10.10
 key *****
 aaa-server RSA_RADIUS (INSIDE) host 10.10.10.11
 key *****
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 aaa-server AD_TESTAD protocol nt
 aaa-server AD_TESTAD (INSIDE) host 20.20.20.20
 nt-auth-domain-controller 20.20.20.20
 aaa-server AD_TESTAD (INSIDE) host 20.20.20.21
 nt-auth-domain-controller 20.20.20.21
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 Step 2
 Configure tunnel-group for RSA and Active Directory Authentication
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 tunnel-group DefaultWEBVPNGroup general-attributes
 authentication-server-group RSA_RADIUS
 authentication-server-group (INSIDE) RSA_RADIUS
 secondary-authentication-server-group AD_TESTAD use-primary-username
 secondary-authentication-server-group (INSIDE) AD_TESTAD use-primary-username
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