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FortiWeb VMware ESXi Active-Passive HA Cluster with Unicast Heartbeat Setup Guide

Prerequisites

Prerequisites

In this article, we assume you already have deployed the following:

  • Two FortiWeb-VMs running on VMware ESXi. The FortiWeb version should be 7.0.2 or higher, and they should be in Reverse Proxy mode.

  • Client (Ubuntu 18.04) * 1

  • Sever (Ubuntu 18.04) * 2

In the following sections, we will use an example to illustrate the steps. In this example, there is a server policy configured with VIP 10.159.33.200, and the real servers' IP addresses are 10.0.0.100 & 10.0.1.100.

Refer to the network diagram below.

Prerequisites

Prerequisites

In this article, we assume you already have deployed the following:

  • Two FortiWeb-VMs running on VMware ESXi. The FortiWeb version should be 7.0.2 or higher, and they should be in Reverse Proxy mode.

  • Client (Ubuntu 18.04) * 1

  • Sever (Ubuntu 18.04) * 2

In the following sections, we will use an example to illustrate the steps. In this example, there is a server policy configured with VIP 10.159.33.200, and the real servers' IP addresses are 10.0.0.100 & 10.0.1.100.

Refer to the network diagram below.