Deploying FortiGate HA using the GCP GUI
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When configuring the route's next hop policy, select Specify an IP address in the Next hop dropdown list. This is the only option that allows HA to function. |
This deployment consists of the following steps:
- Obtaining the deployment image
- Uploading the FortiGate deployment image to GCP
- Creating the FortiGate deployment image
- Creating VPC networks
- Creating VPC firewall rules
- Deploying the primary FortiGate-VM instance
- Deploying the secondary FortiGate-VM instance
- Creating a GCP route table
- Uploading the license and configuring network interfaces
- Setting up FortiGate HA