Requirements and Prerequisites for Container Instances

For information about high-availability or clustering requirements with multi-instance, see Requirements and Prerequisites for High Availability and see Requirements and Prerequisites for Clustering.

Supported Application Types

  • The threat defense using management center

Maximum Container Instances and Resources per Model

For each container instance, you can specify the number of CPU cores to assign to the instance. RAM is dynamically allocated according to the number of cores, and disk space is set to 40 GB per instance.

Maximum Container Instances and Resources per Model

Model

Max. Container Instances

Available CPU Cores

Available RAM

Available Disk Space

Firepower 4112

3

22

78 GB

308 GB

Firepower 4115

7

46

162 GB

308 GB

Firepower 4125

10

62

162 GB

644 GB

Firepower 4140

7

70

222 GB

311.8 GB

Firepower 4145

14

86

344 GB

608 GB

Firepower 9300 SM-40 security module

13

78

334 GB

1359 GB

Firepower 9300 SM-48 security module

15

94

334 GB

1341 GB

Firepower 9300 SM-56 security module

18

110

334 GB

1314 GB

Management Center Requirements

For all instances on a Firepower 4100 chassis or Firepower 9300 module, you must use the same management center due to the licensing implementation.