- Fully independent solution
The ASAv brings full firewall capabilities to virtualized environments to help secure data center traffic and multitenant architectures. Because it has been optimized for data center environments, the ASAv supports vSwitches. The ASAv can therefore be deployed in Cisco, hybrid, and even non Cisco data centers, significantly reducing administrative overhead and improving flexibility and operational efficiency. In any data center environment, the Cisco ASAv allows critical security functions to dynamically scale to protect assets as business demands change. - Fully integrated ACI security
The ASAv has been fully and transparently integrated into the fabric of the next-generation ACI data center architecture. This approach removes the limitations of traditional network-oriented security solutions, allowing for significantly streamlined provisioning.
The Cisco Adaptive Security Virtual Appliance (ASAv) is a completely reimagined virtual security solution. It supports both traditional tiered data center deployments and the fabric-based deployments of Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) environments. The ASAv supports consistent, transparent security across physical, virtual, application-centric, SDN, and cloud environments.