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• Fortigate Vm Licensing

Deploying the FortiGate-VM. Use the vSphere client to deploy the FortiGate OVF template and create the FortiGate-VM virtual machine on the VMware ESXi server. To create the FortiGate-VM virtual machine: Launch the vSphere client, enter the IP address or host name of your VMware server and your user name and password, and then select Login. The port2 and port3 interfaces of a FortiGate-VM send and receive most of the traffic. On the VM host you have set up CPU affinity between your FortiGate-VM and four CPUs (CPU 0, 1, 2, and 3). SR-IOV is enabled and SR-IOV interfaces use the i40evf interface driver. A Gigabit Ethernet network interface card with a VMkernel port enabled for vMotion exists on both ESXi hosts. A FortiGate-VM is set up and able to handle traffic. To migrate the FortiGate-VM on the vCenter web portal: Log into the vCenter web portal. Verify the current location of the FortiGate-VM: Navigate to the FortiGate-VM.

Interrupt affinityIn addition to enabling SR-IOV in the VM host, to fully take advantage of SR-IOV performance improvements you need to configure interrupt affinity for your FortiGate-VM. Interrupt affinity (also called CPU affinity) maps FortiGate-VM interrupts to the CPUs that are assigned to your FortiGate-VM.

Fortigate Vm Licensing

Interrupt affinityIn addition to enabling SR-IOV in the VM host, to fully take advantage of SR-IOV performance improvements you need to configure interrupt affinity for your FortiGate-VM. Interrupt affinity (also called CPU affinity) maps FortiGate-VM interrupts to the CPUs that are assigned to your FortiGate-VM.