Cisco FTDv10 Full English Product Description
1. Short Official Tier & License Label
FTDv10 / L-FTDV-10S-BSE-K9=: Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense Virtual Tier 10 Mid-Entry Virtual NGFW, Licensed for Hard Rate-Limited 1 Gbps Full Inspection Throughput, Optimal 4 vCPU / 8GB VM Resource Allocation, Cisco Smart Software Subscription Licensing, Supports VMware ESXi, KVM, OpenStack, AWS & Azure Public Clouds, Unified All-in-One Threat Stack including Snort 3 NGIPS, AMP, URL Filtering, Identity Policy, SD-WAN, Max 250 Concurrent AnyConnect RA VPN Sessions, Dual Local FDM & Centralized FMC Management, Active/Standby HA Supported
2. Full Product Overview
Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense Virtual 10 (FTDv10, previously NGFWv10) is a mid-entry tier virtual next-generation firewall running the unified Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) operating system, positioned above lightweight FTDv5 for small-to-medium virtual branches, hybrid cloud edge gateways, medium test/dev environments, and mid-volume MSSP micro-customer security segments across private hypervisors and mainstream public cloud platformsCisco.
Unlike legacy ASAv virtual firewalls based on traditional ASA OS, FTDv10 delivers fully integrated unified threat protection in a single virtual instance, combining stateful firewall, Snort 3 NGIPS intrusion prevention, Advanced Malware Protection (AMP), cloud URL filtering, identity-aware access control, and integrated SD-WAN functionality. This tier enforces a fixed 1 Gbps maximum inspection throughput cap via built-in license throttling, with a hard limit of 250 simultaneous AnyConnect remote access VPN users, balancing performance and cost for moderate-traffic workloads without heavy high-bandwidth inspection demandsCisco Syst....
FTDv10 supports deployment flexibility across VMware ESXi 7.x/8.x, KVM, OpenStack private clouds plus AWS and Azure public cloud environments, with paravirtualized vmxnet3/ixgbe vNICs and SR-IOV hardware passthrough to reduce virtualization latency. It adopts Cisco Smart Software Licensing with flexible perpetual or term-based base entitlements, with optional add-on Threat, Malware, URL, and AnyConnect Apex/Plus subscription licenses to unlock full advanced threat capabilities. Administrators can operate standalone via the lightweight Firepower Device Manager (FDM) local GUI or centrally orchestrate hundreds of hybrid virtual and physical firewalls via Firepower Management Center (FMC) for unified policy control, logging and reportingCisco.
Key Limitation: FTDv10 only supports Active/Standby stateful failover; Active/Active HA and multi-node virtual clustering are not available for this performance tier.
3. Virtual Machine Hardware Resource Specifications
Mandatory & Optimal VM Resource Allocation for Full 1 Gbps Licensed Throughput
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Virtual CPU: Minimum 4 dedicated vCPUs (official optimal configuration for FTDv10 tier)
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System Memory: Minimum 8GB dedicated VM RAM
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Storage: Minimum 40GB high-performance thin-provisioned virtual disk for OS, configuration backups, persistent event logs, AMP malware cache, and Talos signature databases
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Supported Private Hypervisors: VMware ESXi 7.x / 8.x, KVM, OpenStack
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Supported Public Cloud Platforms: Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure
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Virtual NIC Compatibility: vmxnet3, ixgbe, SR-IOV hardware passthrough vNICs for low-latency encrypted traffic processing
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Max Virtual Interfaces: Up to 12 vNICs for multi-segment network isolation and east-west workload segmentation
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VLAN Capacity: Up to 512 VLAN tagged subinterfaces
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Jumbo Frame Support: Up to 9000 MTU for data center storage and cloud workload traffic
Official FTDv10 Licensed Performance Benchmarks
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Maximum Licensed FW+AVC+NGIPS Inspection Throughput: 1 Gbps (hardware-enforced rate limit)Cisco
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IPsec VPN Encrypted Throughput (AES-256): Up to 1 Gbps
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Maximum Concurrent Active Stateful Connections: 750,000
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New Connections Per Second: Up to 12,000
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Max Site-to-Site IPsec VPN Peer Tunnels: 750
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Max Concurrent AnyConnect SSL Remote Access VPN Sessions: 250 (license enforced cap)Cisco Syst...
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TLS/SSL Decryption Throughput: Up to 600 Mbps for bulk encrypted web and application traffic
4. Complete Unified Threat Security Feature Suite
1. Next-Generation Stateful Firewall & AVC
Full Layer 3–4 stateful packet inspection, static/dynamic NAT, PAT, NAT64/NAT46 dual-stack translation, granular object-group access control policies, Layer 7 Application Visibility and Control supporting thousands of enterprise, cloud, social media and SaaS applications, traffic policing and QoS bandwidth shaping. Native IPv4/IPv6 dual-stack support with static routing, OSPF, EIGRP and BGP dynamic routing protocols for seamless hybrid on-prem/cloud connectivity.
2. Snort 3 NGIPS Intrusion Prevention System
High-performance Deep Packet Inspection (DPI), protocol anomaly detection, exploit signature matching, advanced evasion mitigation, custom IOC import and real-time threat correlation powered by Cisco Talos global threat intelligence to block exploits, malware lateral movement and intrusion attempts.
3. Advanced Malware Protection (AMP) for Networks
Cloud-based file sandboxing, retrospective malware analysis, global file trajectory tracking, real-time outbreak alerting and file reputation filtering to detect and contain zero-day malicious file transfers across virtual workloads.
4. Global URL & DNS Reputation Filtering
Cloud-updated web category database covering 280+ million URLs across 80+ risk categories, malicious domain/IP reputation lookup, DNS sinkholing and encrypted DNS (DoH/DoT) threat identification to block phishing, malware and high-risk web destinations.
5. Identity-Aware Zero Trust Policy Enforcement
Native integration with Active Directory, Cisco ISE and Secure Client to apply user/group context-based security rules, enabling zero-trust access control tied to real user identities instead of only IP addresses.
6. Integrated SD-WAN & Full VPN Services
Dynamic SD-WAN multi-path selection for hybrid broadband/MPLS WAN aggregation; site-to-site IPsec IKEv1/IKEv2 tunnels with AES-256 encryption; AnyConnect SSL remote access VPN with split tunneling, clientless web portal and secure mobility for distributed remote workforce.
7. High Availability & Virtual Resilience
Only Active/Standby stateful failover HA supported (Active/Active and multi-node clustering unavailable for FTDv10). Full stateful session synchronization between HA peers eliminates connection drops during VM maintenance or failure, fully compatible with hypervisor and cloud-native VM redundancy groups.
8. Traffic Visibility, Logging & Compliance
Real-time traffic monitoring via FDM local web GUI; secure syslog, SNMP v3 and NetFlow Secure Event Logging (NSEL) export to third-party SIEM platforms. Persistent audit logging meets regulatory compliance requirements for small-to-medium enterprise PCI DSS, HIPAA and GDPR audit frameworks.
9. DevOps Automation & Centralized Orchestration
Local FDM lightweight web GUI for standalone single-instance administration; RESTful API for automated VM provisioning, policy deployment and lifecycle management; unified cross-platform policy distribution, centralized logging and cross-device reporting via Firepower Management Center (FMC); centralized license entitlement tracking via Cisco Smart License Manager.
5. Typical Deployment Scenarios
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Medium remote office virtual security gateway with 1Gbps internet bandwidth
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Cloud test/development environment perimeter protection on AWS/Azure
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Medium-scale east-west segmentation for virtualized server clusters in SDDC
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Mid-tier MSSP virtual security nodes for moderate-traffic small business customers
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Virtual branch consolidation replacing low-end physical FTD hardware for cost optimization
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Lab, training and pre-production security testing environments with medium traffic volume
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Hybrid multi-cloud workload edge inspection for small enterprise SaaS connectivity
6. Short Sales Listing Tagline
Cisco FTDv10 Secure Firewall Threat Defense Virtual Mid-Entry NGFW, Licensed for 1Gbps Max Full Inspection Throughput, Optimal 4 vCPU / 8GB VM RAM, Smart Software License L-FTDV-10S-BSE-K9=, Supports VMware ESXi/KVM/OpenStack/AWS/Azure, Integrated Snort 3 NGIPS/AMP/URL Filter/SD-WAN Stack, 250 Concurrent AnyConnect RA VPN Sessions, Active/Standby HA Only, Managed via Local FDM GUI or Centralized FMC, Virtual NGFW for Medium Remote Branches & Moderate-Traffic Cloud Workloads
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