Whenever your license expires just go to CLI and issue execute factoryreset command again. You can also use the CLI to find the expiration date. Here you can see the license expiration date. Ĭlick on FGVMEV License in that widget and it will take you to the licensing status page: There’s a dashboard widget, which shows that you are using the evaluation license for the VM. Now you will be able to access the GUI and start configuring the device. Provide the new password and find the IP address of the interface as was described previously. The command is execute factoryreset.Īfter the reset process you will have to login with default credentials again ( admin and blank password). The easiest way to make it work is just perform a factory reset of the Fortigate-VM. This error has something to do with time synchronization. If you don’t get any error you will see the dashboard of the Fortigate. If you had a licensing related error, mentioned previously, you will see the following page: Once you know the IP address of the Fortigate-VM you can login to its web interface. Now you can type (just type, don’t press enter) show system interface and the press “?” for context sensitive help, this will show you all available interfaces with their IP addresses.īy default, all network adapters of the VM are in a bridged mode, this means that one of the interfaces will get an IP address from your router(DHCP server), which provides internet access to your computer. Pay attention to the error about the license, you will most probably get the same error, because this error takes place with newer versions of FortiOS (6.0 and newer).

Below is the screenshot with the initial login process. On the first login you will be asked to set the new password. The default username is admin and the password is blank. Now you can start the VM and access the CLI console. This will open Import Virtual Machine window where you will need to specify the location for the new VM:Ĭlick import and the VM will be imported and stored at the specified location. Import the VM into VMware WorkstationĮxtract the downloaded archive and double-click the virtual machine file as shown below: Now choose the VMware ESXi for a VM type, select the desired version and click Download button for a New deployment file, as shown on the picture below: Step 2.

Then navigate to Download tab and click VM Images: The process of registration is very simple and takes 2 minutes. The first thing to do is go to and create a free account. It means that you don’t have to buy anything to test some functionality on your VM. Evaluation licenseįortinet allows us to download and use the virtual machine for free for two weeks.

I will be using VMware Workstation 15 for virtualization. In this post you will see how you can run Fortigate virtual machine on a Windows operating system.

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