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FortiGate-VM is a full-featured FortiGate packaged as a virtual appliance. FortiGate-VM virtual appliance is ideal for monitoring and enforce virtual traffic on leading virtualization, cloud and SDN platforms, including VMware vSphere, Hyper-V, Xen, KVM, and Amazon Web Services (AWS).
Version and type of software being impacted (i.e. Browser, your computer's OS, etc.). What you have already tried as part of your troubleshooting processSupport Links.Fortinet Links.Brain/Answer DumpsPosting brain or answer dumps for Fortinet certifications is prohibited as they are copyrighted material. Sharing dumps and may result in a site-wide ban. Hi,In my experience, once the license expires, you can no longer make changes to the firewall and it stops passing traffic. In addition to that, during the evaluation period (with the evaluation license), only weak or low encryption (des) ciphers are able to be used.Ultimately, if you have a long proving period, my recommendation is your best bet it to reach out to your sales person (or trusted reseller/Fortinet partner) and get a longer term evaluation license.If you need to look at another vendor, that is understandable, but I recommend to you to weigh out all of your options when making that consideration (price, feature support, ease of use, etc.).I hope this helps.
The FortiGate-VM virtual appliance includes a limited, 15-day evaluation license that supports:
- 1 CPU maximum
- 1024 MB memory maximum
- Low encryption only (no HTTPS administrative access)
- All features except FortiGuard updates
Note the following:
- Attempting to upgrade the FortiGate firmware locks the GUI until you upload a full license.
- Technical support is not included. The trial period begins the first time you start the FortiGate-VM.
- After the trial license expires, functionality is disabled until you upload a full license file.