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Running Fortigate (Fortigen Virtual FortiOS Appliance version 4.0) on VMware and initial setup
and licencing
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Series
0.6.0.2 Next-Gen Firewalls (NGFW) – FortiGate 100-200 Series
Notes:: The hardware compatibility of the above Fortigate VM is Workstation 6.5-7.x virtual
machine. Please try VMware Workstation 7.x or lower .
After download, simply extract the file and open the fortigate.vmx file in VMware.
VM Setup
Immediately after, it will be reflected on VMware window. Do not forget to change some initial
setting before you fire up the Fortigate.
Optimizing Hardware
Do a little changes here in memory settings to optimize the hardware of your PC. Set the
memory requirement 512MB.
Now do some changes in Virtual Network Adapter settings as compatible to your topology. Here
I made my own topology bellow and dis the post changes in VM Network Adapters.
Topology
More about Virtual Netowrk and Sharing
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A cli console will come up with login prompt ( username: admin password: N/A)
Now everything is ready, time to do initial configuration.
Topology Varification
Configurations
Fortigate-VM login: admin
Password:
Welcome !
Fortigate-VM (port2) # set allowaccess http https fgmp ssh telnet ping
Fortigate-VM (port2) #
Fortigate-VM (port2) #
Each free fortigate vm have 15 days of trial licence. Once the trial period is over the GUI will
prompt for a new licence file.
So to get rid off this issue, the date need to be changed from the VM BIOS configuration. Open
the BIOS setup by pressing F2 key during VM boot.
Now change the date into the BIOS setup. The date should be a older date of the licence
expiration date.
Once the date is changed, the GUI will prompt a pop up showing the days to expire the licence.
The detailed discussions on policy, access control, NAT, load balancing on Fortigate will be
posted soon.
Thank you.
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