What's new
FortiADC 5.3.1 offers the following new features:
Server Load Balance
Radius L7 SLB clone pool
Sends a copy of Radius message to external server for further analysis.
Radius L7 SLB keep client IP address
When FortiADC connects to the real server, it will use client IP address instead of ADC address.
Radius L7 SLB persistence based on acct-session-id
Security
WAF input validation policy supports multiple rules for each type
Only one rule for each type can be configured to the input validation policy in 5.3.0. From 5.3.1 on, however, multiple rules are allowed.
System
HA supports non-promiscuous (unicast) mode
FortiADC supports multicast (default) and broadcast heartbeat before version 5.3.1, but MSSP cannot use promiscuous mode for FortiADC-VM HA in their cloud infrastructure. Now FortiADC supports non-promiscuous (unicast) mode HA in VMware platform.
Remove memory/disk limitation in VM license
For VM01 – VM32 license, FortiADC will not limit memory/disk any more. And the default memory is now 16G for VMware/Hypervisor template.