FortiGate 6000F series hardware description

The FortiGate 6000F series is a collection of 3U 19-inch rackmount appliances that include twenty-four 1/10/25GigE SFP28 and four 40/100GigE QSFP28 data network interfaces, as well as NP6 and CP9 processors to deliver high IPS/threat prevention performance.

Currently, the following FortiGate 6000F series models are available:

• FortiGate 6500F and FortiGate 6500F-DC
• FortiGate 6501F and FortiGate 6501F-DC
• FortiGate 6300F and FortiGate 6300F-DC
• FortiGate 6301F and FortiGate 6301F-DC
• FortiGate 6001F and FortiGate 6001F-DC

All FortiGate 6000F series models have the same front and back panel configuration including the same network interfaces. The differences are the processing capacity of the individual models. All FortiGate 6000F series models include a management board (MBD) and internal Fortinet Processor Cards (FPCs) that contain NP6 and CP9 security processors. The management board handles management tasks, separating management tasks from data processing tasks that are handled by the FPCs. The FortiGate 6000F series uses session-aware load balancing to distribute sessions to the FPCs. The FortiGate 6500F includes ten FPCs and the FortiGate 6300F includes six FPCs.

The FortiGate 6001F model includes a total of ten FPCs, by default three of them are active. To increase throughput you can purchase perpetual or subscription licenses for each of the additional seven FPCs for a total of ten.

Also the FortiGate 6501F, 6301F, and 6001F models include two internal 1 TByte log disks in a RAID-1 configuration.

FortiGate 6000F series front panel (FortiGate 6500F model shown)