FortiGate-VM licensing dictates the maximum allowable vCPUs and RAM. However, the baseline minimums for the appliance to initialize are:
Improved path quality monitoring and dynamic steering for multi-cloud deployments. Fgt-vm64-kvm-v7.2.3.f-build1262-fortinet.out.kvm.qcow2
qemu-img create -f qcow2 /var/lib/libvirt/images/fortigate-logs.qcow2 30G Use code with caution. Step 2: Provisioning the VM via CLI (virt-install) Step 2: Provisioning the VM via CLI (virt-install)
cp Fgt-vm64-kvm-v7.2.3.f-build1262-fortinet.out.kvm.qcow2 /var/lib/libvirt/images/fortigate-boot.qcow2 qemu-img create -f qcow2 /var/lib/libvirt/images/fortigate-logs.qcow2 30G Use code with caution. 2. Execute Virt-Install Script v7.2.3: FortiOS firmware version 7.2
config system interface edit port1 set mode static set ip set allowaccess https ssh http telnet next end Use code with caution. Step 5: License Activation
Context switching between physical CPUs degrades firewall performance. Edit your VM’s XML configuration ( virsh edit FortiGate-7.2.3 ) to pin vCPUs to specific physical cores on a single NUMA node.
Tailored for Kernel-based Virtual Machine environments (Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Ubuntu, Proxmox VE, Nutanix AHV). v7.2.3: FortiOS firmware version 7.2, patch release 3.