At the FortiGate VM login prompt enter the username admin. You might need to press Return to see a login prompt.Į xa m p l e of FortiGate VM console access:Ģ.

In your hypervisor manager, start the FortiGate VM and access the console window. VM Platform FortiGate VM Deployment File Citrix XenServer v5.6sp2, 6.0 and later: FGTVM64-v500-buildnnnn-FORTINET. FortiGate VM includes a limited embedded 15-day trial license if you run in VMWare Workstation and 75 days in ESXi that supports. Before you can access the Web-based manager, you must configure FortiGate VM port1 with an IP address and administrative access.įortinet vm available in Xen, HyperV, KVM version too. On the FortiGate VM, this provides access to the FortiGate console, equivalent to the console port on a hardware FortiGate unit. Hypervisor management environments include a guest console window.

Validate the FortiGate VM license with FortiManager.

Connect to the FortiGate VM Web-based Manager.

The following topics are included in this section: Set FortiGate VM port1 IP address Once an interface with administrative access is configured, you can connect to the FortiGate VM web-based Manager and upload the FortiGate VM license file that you downloaded from the Customer Service & Support website. The alternative is having Fortimanager to do so.Before you can connect to the FortiGate VM web-based manager you must configure a network interface in the FortiGate VM console. Internet access: Fortigate VM has to have Internet access to activate the license. See the reference at the bottom for details. The rest of limitations: additional limitations (CPU/Memory/etc.) that were present in 15 days license, are still enforced as well. One license per one FortiCloud account: this means that to have multiple evaluation licenses for multiple Fortigates, we need to create multiple FortiCloud accounts, nuisance but doable. And on top of it, it also counts Loopback interfaces as well. This counts also interfaces that are in state disabled/ down. Number of interfaces: maximum 3, was unlimited. Currently (FortiOS 7.2.1), though, there is no actual enforcement of this limit - I configured BGP and few static routes, 6 all in all, and it worked without any issue. This means severe limiting of dynamic protocols labs like OSPF/BGP. Number of routes: the limit is also 3, while was unlimited before. Security Rules: the limit is 3, instead of 5.

Fortigate vm license registration