Introduction

FortiFlex allows you to easily manage usage entitlements. You can use the FortiFlex portal to create configurations, generate licensing tokens, and monitor resource consumption in the form of points.

FortiFlex provides a simplified and flexible licensing model for Fortinet products, including hardware, VM, and cloud services:

• VMs and associated services for core solutions, such as FortiGate, FortiManager, FortiAnalyzer, FortiWeb, and FortiADC

• FortiGate hardware services for multiple supported models

• SaaS and add-ons, such as FortiWeb Cloud, FortiGate Cloud, FortiSASE, and so on

• Endpoint security solutions, such as FortiClient EMS and FortiEDR Cloud

FortiFlex subscribers can create multiple sets of a single entitlement that corresponds to a licensed asset. Resource consumption is based upon predefined points that are calculated on a daily basis (PST/PDT time zone).

Configurations are reusable and can be modified as needed, affecting all entitlements using the given configuration. For example, a customer has a FortiGate-VM configuration with four vCPUs enabled and 10 FortiGate VMs entitled using said configuration. The customer then increases the number of vCPUs in the configuration to eight. Once the changes are applied and pushed to entitlements and licensing servers, the next time the 10 VMs perform a license and entitlement update against the servers, they will receive updated information and apply them locally to enable support to the increased number of vCPUs.

Virtual Machines with usage entitlements require a per-VM unique token to be installed on every VM. These tokens can be injected into the VM once the configurations and vCPU quantities are defined in the FortiFlex portal, and the VMs are deployed on the customer-managed platform in supported clouds and hypervisors.

See the FortiFlex Concept Guide for more information.