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Minimum system requirements

Minimum system requirements

Caution

FortiManager-VM has a minimum requirement of 4 CPU, 8 GB of RAM, and 500 GB of disk storage. In 7.2.5 and later and 7.4.1 and later, the minimum requirement for RAM is increased to 16 GB.

The following table includes example minimum system requirements for your VM hardware based on the number of devices/VDOMs that your VM will manage. This table is not inclusive of all scenarios.

Maximum devices/ VDOMs

VM hardware requirements

RAM (GB)

CPU cores

300

16

6

1200

32

6

4000

64

16

10000

128

24

This table does not take into account other hardware specifications, such as bus speed, CPU model, or storage type.

Enabling FortiAnalyzer features requires additional resources.

See the minimum system requirements for FortiAnalyzer-VM as a guideline for how many additional resources your deployment may require.

Minimum system requirements

Caution

FortiManager-VM has a minimum requirement of 4 CPU, 8 GB of RAM, and 500 GB of disk storage. In 7.2.5 and later and 7.4.1 and later, the minimum requirement for RAM is increased to 16 GB.

The following table includes example minimum system requirements for your VM hardware based on the number of devices/VDOMs that your VM will manage. This table is not inclusive of all scenarios.

Maximum devices/ VDOMs

VM hardware requirements

RAM (GB)

CPU cores

300

16

6

1200

32

6

4000

64

16

10000

128

24

This table does not take into account other hardware specifications, such as bus speed, CPU model, or storage type.

Enabling FortiAnalyzer features requires additional resources.

See the minimum system requirements for FortiAnalyzer-VM as a guideline for how many additional resources your deployment may require.