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Welcome you all to Cisco firewalls course.
In this video we will discuss the topic of what we call a Cisco virtual essay or a s a V by the end
of this video.
You will be able to understand what is meant by a virtual essay why we need it and when and to use it.
So let's start Cisco has invented instead of using a physical AC appliance a virtual appliance which
is actually a software based firewall so you can use all the features or most of the features 90 percent
of the features are available on the Cisco a is a virtual machine
that you can use instead of just like purchasing or buying a physical appliance which actually costly
and expensive.
So mainly here the solution or the approach is all based on software.
You have a visual switch you have a virtual AC appliance.
Also the nodes or the computers are all virtual machines here.
All those components are connected to what we call a hypervisor which is actually the virtualization
engine that you connect all those devices to OK.
The main approach here is to use a software based solution or what we call a software defined network
or as the end OK.
There are many hypervisor that you can use to connect your Cisco as a virtual appliance to.
There are some hypervisor from Microsoft from Oracle but I prefer using VM where which actually the
best hypervisor that works with the ACA.
OK.
It's called VM where workstation.
OK so many here we have all the solution based on software approach all right.
So the adaptive security virtual appliance runs as a virtual machine inside a hypervisor.
As I said in a virtual host so mainly the hypervisor is your hosts is your host it hosts all your components
OK.
So for example if you have a laptop or one computer you can install a hypervisor on it which as I mentioned
in the previous slide it can be anywhere or Microsoft as or e s s i from Oracle or whatever but I prefer
it.
As I said use VM where OK
all right are all features available on this is a virtual appliance.
Most of the features available.
However some features are not available like for example the multiple context feature is not available
in which we actually discussed in a previous video I have included here a link to Cisco
Cisco Web site which has that is a visual appliance products
let's see first how to get this visual appliance OK the visual appliance actually is not free to download
it will need an account it will need a partner account or every seller account.
So if you work for a company which is partner of Cisco they can provide you with the account or you
can try to download a trial vision or an evaluation version of the E as a visual appliance.
It will need a license either a trial license or a production license so mainly it's not free like so
just type Cisco is a v trial or squeeze be and see the results.
Since I have already a viral account or a Cisco partner account I have here many models of Cisco a s
a visual appliances all those numbers represent different models of AC.
OK so what size do you need actually to download.
Here you go.
You will need a file with this extension all V8 or visualizations format file which is actually a visualisation
engine you will need a file of this format or V8 or
or V F let me show you
here you go.
You will need a file with the extension of a or Ovi F which is actually open visualization format.
You will need a file with this extension for the specific model that you are downloading.
Also you will need a file of this format.
Here you go.
You go to which is actually the main software that the visual is a appliance will work on.
OK.
So you will need to download those files
for your lapse.
Can I use this virtual machine on Cisco Packet Tracer.
No it's not available in Cisco Packet Tracer.
Let's see this.
Here we go.
The security devices or the security appliances you will have here.
Only the physical appliances.
Which is for example fifty five or six you cannot use the visual appliance on Cisco Packet Tracer.
You will need another simulator.
The simulator that you need.
It's called G and S three.
It's another simulator just like Cisco Packet Tracer.
It's free to download.
However it works in a different way.
OK.
And this will be covered in a separate video series.
OK so again what do you need.
You need to download those files I mentioned with those extensions.
And also you will need either to obtain a free trial version with a free trial or evaluation license
or you will need a viral account.
The I R ed if you type in Google Cisco via an account
let's click on the first result here.
Cisco viruses Cisco virtual Internet routing lab OK.
Here in this link you will see what exactly you will need to do so Cisco our account allows you to download
that software and the operating system for that is a firewall.
The virtual firewall in order to make simulations or lapse OK these vital account actually is not free.
It's about two hundred dollars a year yearly annually.
One ninety nine.
So as I said if you work for a company which is a Cisco partner you can obtain or they can provide you
with this account.
It's just like a username a password we can provide you with it and you can download the virtual appliances.
OK so let's go back to our slides here.
So why do we need that.
It's a virtual
so.
Here is a which is the physical appliance versus the visual appliance.
Actually it's very obvious.
What are the benefits of adaptive security visual appliance of course ease of management ease of administration.
It's very easy to manage a solution based on software.
Then just like configuring a hardware appliance or management and conflagration it's easy you actually
reduce the overhead and improve flexibility and of course you reduce the cost.
And instead of buying a physical appliance you obtain a vote it accounts for 200 dollars a year and
you download the visual appliances and use it.
So those actually are the benefits of using that visual appliance as you can see you can do whatever
you want here in disfiguring you see that is a virtual appliance here between the inside the interface
and the outside interface the hosts or the computer's heat or audio visual machines based on software
OK you'll have management interface as usual the management station also is a virtual machine or a VM.
So everything is based on software.
All right.
So again you really you need to download the a visual files and a license.
All right.
So that's all for this video.
And then Nic is with you we will discuss some advanced features of Cisco packet tracer and how to use
it.
Thank you very much for watching and see you in the next video.