Installing FortiIsolator VM for VMware ESXi

Use this procedure to install FortiIsolator VM for VMware ESXi.

Prerequisites

• Install VMware ESXi.

• 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

1. In the ESXi home page, click Virtual Machine, and then right-click and select Create/Register VM.

   

2. In the Select creation type step, click Deploy a virtual machine from an OVF or OVA file.

   

3. In the Select OVF and VMDK files step, select both the FortiIsolator.ovf and fis.vmdk files.

   

4. In the Select storage step, select the datastore where you want to install the FortiIsolator VM.

   

5. Review and accept the FortiIsolator End User License Agreement.

   

6. 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

   

7. Configure Disk provisioning, and select the Power on automatically checkbox.
8. Verify the deployment options, and click Finish.

   

9. To start the VM, right-click the FortiIsolator VM name, and select Power > Power on.
10. To open the FortiIsolator VM console, click Console > Open browser console.

    

11. Log in to FortiIsolator. The default username is admin and there is no default password.
12. Configure the IP and gateway addresses for the internal and management interfaces.

    

13. To verify that the internet connection works, ping 8.8.8.8.
14. To access the FortiIsolator web portal, use the management IP address (for example, http://10.160.17.63).