Anyone any experience of replacing a Cisco Pix with a virtual firewalls

[foxj77]

Hi there,

 

We are due to replace our two Cisco Pix firewalls with the latest equivalent from Cisco. ASA's i believe. I am also looking at options for replacing the physical firewalls with virtual ones. Has anyone had any previous experiences of doing a similar thing.

 

We have 4 physcial ESX hosts running vsphere 4.1 enterprise licences. I am interested in exploring the option of running the firewall and providing high availability using vmware HA.

 

Any thoughts, ideas or experiences?

 

Thanks in advance

[CyberNerd]

The Cisco ASA is a really good choice. It's reasonably easy to setup as the gui on it is fantastic, you can do pretty much anything that the cli can do.