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VMware ESXi Administration Guide

Completing tuning the FortiGate-VM instance

Completing tuning the FortiGate-VM instance

You must make a few more tuning configurations. So following where you performed the hardware configuration, go to the VM Options tab. Under Advanced, click EDIT CONFIGURATION.

Click ADD CONFIGURATION PARAMS, and configure the parameters:

  • Add the 1G hugepage support by adding the parameter sched.mem.lpage.enable1GPage set to Value TRUE.
  • Define NUMA node affinity by adding the parameter numa.nodeAffinite set to Value of the NUMA node being used, in this case 0.

From the Latency Sensitivity dropdown list, select High.

Completing tuning the FortiGate-VM instance

Completing tuning the FortiGate-VM instance

You must make a few more tuning configurations. So following where you performed the hardware configuration, go to the VM Options tab. Under Advanced, click EDIT CONFIGURATION.

Click ADD CONFIGURATION PARAMS, and configure the parameters:

  • Add the 1G hugepage support by adding the parameter sched.mem.lpage.enable1GPage set to Value TRUE.
  • Define NUMA node affinity by adding the parameter numa.nodeAffinite set to Value of the NUMA node being used, in this case 0.

From the Latency Sensitivity dropdown list, select High.