Step 3: Power on the virtual appliance

After the virtual appliance software has been deployed and its virtual hardware configured, you can power on the virtual appliance.

Before you begin:

• You must have resized the disk (VMDK).
• You must have resized the CPUs and RAM, if necessary.
• You must have mapped the virtual network adapters if the defaults are not appropriate.

These settings must be configured in virtual machine environment. You do not configure them in the FortiADC OS.

To power on FortiADC-VM:

1. Use the VMware vSphere client to connect to VMware vSphere server.

The following figure shows the vSphere client manager window.



2. In the left pane, click the name of the virtual appliance, such as FortiADC-VM-Doc.
3. Click the Getting Started tab.



4. Click Power on the virtual machine.