Minimum system requirements

Before deploying the FortiSandbox VM virtual appliance, install and configure the latest stable release of VMware vSphere ESXi Hypervisor software. Supported versions are ESXi version 5.1 to 7.0.1.

Access VMware vSphere using a web browser or install the VMware vSphere client.

FortiSandbox VM has specific CPU requirements: Intel Virtualization Technology (VT-x/EPT) or AMD Virtualization (AMD-V/RVI). Enter the BIOS to enable Virtualization Technology and 64-bit support. Detailed information can be found at https://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-8970.

In VMware, you can expose full CPU virtualization to the guest operating system so that applications that require hardware virtualization can run on virtual machines without binary translation or paravirtualization. For more information, see https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/6.5/com.vmware.vsphere.vm_admin.doc/GUID-2A98801C-68E8-47AF-99ED-00C63E4857F6.html.

When configuring your FortiSandbox hardware settings, use the following table as a guide with consideration for future expansion.

Technical Specification	Details
Hypervisor Support	VMware ESXi Microsoft Hyper-V Windows server 2016 and 2019 Kernel Virtual Machine (KVM)
HA Support	FortiSandbox 2.4 or later
Virtual CPUs (min / max)	4 / Unlimited Fortinet recommends four virtual CPUs plus the number of VM clones.
Virtual Network Interfaces	6
Virtual Memory (min / max)	16GB / Unlimited Fortinet recommends a minimum of 16GB for up to 5 clones. For more clones, use 3GB per Windows VM clone + 1GB. For example, 8 clones require at least 25GB (3GB x 8 clones + 1GB).
Virtual Storage (min / max)	200GB / 16TB Fortinet recommends at least 1TB for a production environment.