In your hypervisor manager, start the FortiGate VM and access the console window. Before you can access the Web-based manager, you must configure FortiGate VM port1 with an IP address and administrative access.ġ.
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On the FortiGate VM, this provides access to the FortiGate console, equivalent to the console port on a hardware FortiGate unit.
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Hypervisor management environments include a guest console window.
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No manual configuration of nodes is required. The configuration of FortiGate-VMX instances is handled by the FortiGate-VMX Service Manager.Once the FortiGate-VMX Service Manager is integrated into the SDDC, any time an ESXi host is added, a FortiGate-VMX instance will auto deploy and self-register with the FortiGate-VMX Service Manager.By comparison, the FortiGate VMX is part of an automated deployment process that is part of the VMware virtual environment through the use of an API. It has the same feature set of the hardware version of a FortiGate. A FortiGate VM is a virtual appliance deployed from an OVF file either manually by the VM administrator or as part of an orchestrated event.Both are required for it to function properly.
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