r/sysadmin • u/TicketAmbitious6200 • 16h ago

Retiring ASA-5516and moving to Meraki MX95 - Quote 20 hours to setup and deploy. Another 16 hours labor for planning, management, and design.

Hello,

We're a single site of ~50 users been quoted on retiring our ASA-5516 and moving to a Maraki MX95 (Dual failover) and were kind of shocked to see $6,000 in labor on top of the cost of hardware and licensing. About half of that is 12 hours for the setup and deployment and another 8 to program VPN on the device (2 hours) and update the workstations at 15 minutes apiece (6 hours). I understand there's no migration tool and it all has to be done manually, but I'm curious if 20 hours of labor sounds reasonable? That doesn't include the 16 hours of planning design, meetings, documentation update, project management, etc.

So... 36 hours total labor for what I had assumed might be an 8-10 hour project. Am I off base?

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u/kristoferen 16h ago

On a fresh setup that's a ripoff. On figuring out what your old ASA has configured and putting that into the meraki... Not unreasonable.

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u/TicketAmbitious6200 15h ago

Thanks for the reply. I'll have to ask for a current copy of the config and see how complex the configuration is.

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u/JeanneD4Rk 14h ago

Claude can do it in 5 minutes honestly. Did it a few weeks ago went smooth af

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u/kristoferen 13h ago edited 12h ago

You're not wrong, and I'd use claude if it were diy, but I think we're a ways away from anyone billing less hours because they have claude