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To view the licensing status, go to FortiGuard > Licensing Status.

This is why it’s important to find a good partner - Fortinet pro services are $3000/day.FortiManager includes a licensing overview page that allows you to view license information for all managed FortiGate devices. Help setting it up / consulting - that’s Pro Services either from Fortinet or your partner / reseller. FortiCare not only has TAC access (bug fixes assistance), but your application control database updates, and rights to firmware upgrades.Ĥ. You can’t go without FortiCare, or you may as well just go to Best Buy or staples and buy a Dlink router. If internal behind another Edge firewall that can do all the web filtering and stuff, then ATP.ģ. Then you decide the security features you need (if you’re internet-edge facing, then UTP or Enterprise. This is vSwitch interfaces, so you would need to tag some vlans together on the same vSwitch to squeeze 15 networks on 10 nics.Ģ. VMware has a hard limit of 10 nics per VM, so there’s that too. I doubt I need to explain that throughput scales almost linearly with the number of vCPU cores, which is what the 01/02/04/08/16/32 is about. Keeping in mind that whichever host is hosting the VM needs to be interconnected to the vlans and be the default gateway for the other ESXi servers. The VM licensing is about features and throughput on VMs.ĭecide based on Mbps of inspection throughput, what model FortiGate VM suits you. We reached out to fortinet but it sounds like we should be reaching out to a third party reseller instead.įortinet can recommend a local reseller with the expertise you need. Does that mean we need to find a licensing for 3 VDOMs? We only have one vcenter but that vcenter maintains 15 esxi hosts (each has it's own private vlan).Īny insight would be great. Which one would we purchase if we need to support 15 vlans (all segmented from one another), maybe 500 vpn connections, and a tech support contract (because fortigate is new to us)?īut did not find it very useful. For example: we found a licensing listing here: įor one year subscriptions, they range from $179 to $3182. We are demoing the fortigate vm01 as a firewall and vpn solution for access to our servers at a local colo. Could anyone point to a straightforward licensing guide?

Fortigate licensing guide