Preparing for deployment

This documentation assumes that before deploying the FortiProxy‑VM on the VMware vSphere virtual platform, you have addressed the following requirements:

Virtual environment

For best performance, install FortiProxy‑VM on a “bare metal” hypervisor. Hypervisors that are installed as applications on top of a general-purpose operating system (Windows, Mac OS X, or Linux) host and have fewer computing resources available due to the host OS’s own overhead. Hardware-assisted virtualization (VT) must be enabled in the BIOS.

You have installed the VMware vSphere software on a physical server with sufficient resources to support the FortiProxy‑VM and all other VMs deployed on the platform.

If you configure the FortiProxy‑VM to operate in transparent mode, or include it in an high availability (HA) cluster, configure any virtual switches to support the FortiProxy‑VM's operation before you create the FortiProxy‑VM.

VM Environment	Tested Versions
VMware	ESXi versions 6.0, 6.5, 6.7, and 7.0

Management software

You can access the VMware vSphere in one of the following ways:

• Directly with the ESXi web GUI

• With the vSphere Web Client if a vCenter is managing the ESXi server

Connectivity

The FortiProxy‑VM requires an internet connection to contact FortiGuard to validate its license.