Installing FortiIsolator VM for VMware ESXi
Use this procedure to install FortiIsolator VM for VMware ESXi.
Prerequisites
- Install VMware vSphere Client.
- Ensure that your system has one of the following combinations of hard disks and network adapters to support ESXI 6.5:
- Two SCSI hard disks and three VMXNET 3 network adapters (this is the default)
- Two SCSI hard disks and three E1000 network adapters
Steps
- In the ESXi home page, click Virtual Machine, and then right-click and select Create/Register VM.
- In the Select creation type step, click Deploy a virtual machine from an OVF or OVA file.
- In the Select OVF and VMDK files step, select both the FortiIsolator.ovf and fis.vmdk files.
- In the Select storage step, select the datastore where you want to install the FortiIsolator VM.
- Review and accept the FortiIsolator End User License Agreement.
- In the Deployment options step, configure Network mappings with four network interfaces accordingly:
- Network 1: Internal Interface
- Network 2: External Interface
- Network 3: Management Interface
- Network 4: HA Interface
- Configure Disk provisioning, and select the Power on automatically checkbox.
- Verify the deployment options, and click Finish.
- To start the VM, right-click the FortiIsolator VM name, and select Power > Power on.
- To open the FortiIsolator VM console, click Console > Open browser console.
- Log in to FortiIsolator. The default username is admin and there is no default password.
- Configure the IP and gateway addresses for the internal and management interfaces.
- To verify that the internet connection works, ping 8.8.8.8.
- To access the FortiIsolator web portal, use the management IP address (for example, http://10.160.17.63).