Fortios.qcow2

Treat fortios.qcow2 as a stateful system. Backing up the image while the VM is running can lead to filesystem corruption. Instead:

For high availability, deploy two fortios.qcow2 instances and configure FGCP (FortiGate Clustering Protocol) over a dedicated heartbeat interface. fortios.qcow2

Before you download fortios.qcow2, ensure your hypervisor is ready. Treat fortios

Unlike a hardware FortiGate, fortios.qcow2 requires a VM00 (Virtual Machine) license or a BYOL (Bring Your Own License) model from Fortinet. For high availability, deploy two fortios