Deploying the FortiGate-VM
Use the vSphere client to deploy the FortiGate OVF template and create the FortiGate-VM on the VMware ESXi server.
To create the FortiGate-VM:
- Deploy the FortiGate OVF template as the VMware documentation describes. Ensure that you select the correct vSphere version in the dropdown list on the right.
- After deployment, configure the FortiGate-VM. See Initial settings.
Disk format options
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Option |
Description |
|---|---|
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Thick Provision Lazy Zeroed |
Allocates the disk space statically (no other volumes can take the space), but does not write zeros to the blocks until the first write takes place to that block during runtime (which includes a full disk format). |
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Thick Provision Eager Zeroed |
Allocates the disk space statically (no other volumes can take the space), and writes zeros to all blocks. |
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Thin Provision |
Allocates the disk space only when a write occurs to a block, but the total volume size is reported by VMFS to the OS. Other volumes can take the remaining space. This allows you to float space between your servers, and expand your storage when your size monitoring indicates there is a problem. Note that once a Thin Provisioned block is allocated, it remains on the volume regardless of whether you have deleted data, etc. |