This chapter covers the following topics:

• Cisco ASA Virtualization Overview: This section presents an overview of the Virtual Firewall capabilities on the Cisco ASA.

• Virtual Firewall Deployment Guidelines: This section describes the information you will need to gather before you deploy Virtual Firewalls. The section also covers the caveats and limitations of using Virtual Firewalls on the ASA.

• Configuration Tasks Overview: This section provides an overview of the configuration tasks that you must perform to implement Virtual Firewalls on the Cisco ASA.

• Configuring Security Contexts: This section details the actual Virtual Firewall configuration process step by step.

• Verifying Security Contexts: This section details how you can easily verify the Virtual Firewalls and their configuration.

• Managing Security Contexts: This section describes the various management tasks you may need to perform on your Virtual Firewalls.

• Configuring Resource Management: This section describes how to manage the various resources consumed by the Virtual Firewalls.

• Verifying Resource Management: This section describes how to verify the implementation of your resource management.

• Troubleshooting Security Contexts: This section covers details required to effectively troubleshoot a Cisco ASA implementation that includes Virtual Firewalls.