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Administration Guide

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Virtual Machine

The FortiSandbox VM host is based on a modified hypervisor.

Model, License, and VM Information

Model

Windows License

Default Windows VMs

Number of VM Hosts Supported

FSA-3000F

Windows 7

Windows 10

Office

WIN7X64SP1O16 (with Office)

Supports 2 VM hosts by default, maximum up to 74 VM hosts.

FSA-3000E

Windows 7

Windows 8.1

Windows 10

Microsoft Office

WIN7X86VM (with Office)

WIN7X64VM

Supports 8 VM hosts by default, maximum up to 56 VM hosts.

FSA-2000E

Windows 7

Windows 8.1

Windows 10

Microsoft Office

WIN7X86SP1O16 (with Office)

Supports 4 VM hosts by default, maximum up to 24 VM hosts.

FSA-1000F

Windows 7

Windows 10

Office

WIN7X64SP1O16 (with Office)

Supports 2 VM hosts by default, maximum up to 14 VM hosts.

FSA-500F

Windows 7

Windows 10

Office

WIN7X64SP1O16 (with Office)

Supports 2 VM hosts by default, maximum up to 6 VM hosts.

FSAVM00

No VM host by default, maximum up to 8 VM hosts. To expand the unit's scan power, you can purchase a Cloud Windows VM subscription. Files can be sent to Fortinet Cloud Sandboxing to scan.

FortiSandbox devices purchased after March 17, 2017 do not support WINXP VM type and its licenses due to Microsoft EOL.

The number of supported VM hosts for each model is only for images published by Fortinet. This number might be lower for custom images with high resource requirements.

You can download and use optional images from VM Settings > Optional VMs. The VM name shows the OS type. O16 in the name means Microsoft Office 2016 is installed.

The following software is installed on each pre-installed Windows guest image:

  • Adobe Flash Player
  • Adobe Reader
  • Java Run Time
  • MSVC Run Time
  • Microsoft .Net Framework
  • Microsoft Office software (only on certain VM types)
  • Web Browsers

Android VM is free to download and use.

You can build custom VM images but you must have software licenses for your custom images.

Other OS versions:

MacOS Mac OS X 10.11
Android Android OS 4.2.2
Linux Ubuntu 18 and Redhat 8

Virtual Machine

The FortiSandbox VM host is based on a modified hypervisor.

Model, License, and VM Information

Model

Windows License

Default Windows VMs

Number of VM Hosts Supported

FSA-3000F

Windows 7

Windows 10

Office

WIN7X64SP1O16 (with Office)

Supports 2 VM hosts by default, maximum up to 74 VM hosts.

FSA-3000E

Windows 7

Windows 8.1

Windows 10

Microsoft Office

WIN7X86VM (with Office)

WIN7X64VM

Supports 8 VM hosts by default, maximum up to 56 VM hosts.

FSA-2000E

Windows 7

Windows 8.1

Windows 10

Microsoft Office

WIN7X86SP1O16 (with Office)

Supports 4 VM hosts by default, maximum up to 24 VM hosts.

FSA-1000F

Windows 7

Windows 10

Office

WIN7X64SP1O16 (with Office)

Supports 2 VM hosts by default, maximum up to 14 VM hosts.

FSA-500F

Windows 7

Windows 10

Office

WIN7X64SP1O16 (with Office)

Supports 2 VM hosts by default, maximum up to 6 VM hosts.

FSAVM00

No VM host by default, maximum up to 8 VM hosts. To expand the unit's scan power, you can purchase a Cloud Windows VM subscription. Files can be sent to Fortinet Cloud Sandboxing to scan.

FortiSandbox devices purchased after March 17, 2017 do not support WINXP VM type and its licenses due to Microsoft EOL.

The number of supported VM hosts for each model is only for images published by Fortinet. This number might be lower for custom images with high resource requirements.

You can download and use optional images from VM Settings > Optional VMs. The VM name shows the OS type. O16 in the name means Microsoft Office 2016 is installed.

The following software is installed on each pre-installed Windows guest image:

  • Adobe Flash Player
  • Adobe Reader
  • Java Run Time
  • MSVC Run Time
  • Microsoft .Net Framework
  • Microsoft Office software (only on certain VM types)
  • Web Browsers

Android VM is free to download and use.

You can build custom VM images but you must have software licenses for your custom images.

Other OS versions:

MacOS Mac OS X 10.11
Android Android OS 4.2.2
Linux Ubuntu 18 and Redhat 8