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Setting up a VM

Setting up a VM

Introduction

This section describes how to deploy a FortiTester virtual appliance in a virtualization server environment. This includes how to configure the virtual hardware settings of the virtual appliance.

This document assumes:

  • you have already successfully installed the virtualization server on the physical machine.
  • you have installed appropriate VM management software on either the physical server or a computer to be used for VM management.

Supported Systems:

  • VMware Workstation (Windows/Linux),
  • VMware ESXi
  • KVM
  • OpenStack Cloud platforms
  • AWS BYOL
  • Azure BYOL
  • OCI BYOL
  • GCP BYOL

For more details about FortiTester-VM deployment, see FortiTester-VM deployment docs.

Setting up a VM

Introduction

This section describes how to deploy a FortiTester virtual appliance in a virtualization server environment. This includes how to configure the virtual hardware settings of the virtual appliance.

This document assumes:

  • you have already successfully installed the virtualization server on the physical machine.
  • you have installed appropriate VM management software on either the physical server or a computer to be used for VM management.

Supported Systems:

  • VMware Workstation (Windows/Linux),
  • VMware ESXi
  • KVM
  • OpenStack Cloud platforms
  • AWS BYOL
  • Azure BYOL
  • OCI BYOL
  • GCP BYOL

For more details about FortiTester-VM deployment, see FortiTester-VM deployment docs.