I am using a cisco switch here, and configurations are identical across all other types of switches. You can use any switch for this configuration, but the switch should have VLAN tagging capability else, it will not work. If anyone on the LAN and VM side wanted to go out to the internet, it must go to the FortiGate firewall VM LAN interface.
So after the deployment, the public-facing IP address will be at the FortiGate firewall WAN interface. All the LAN traffic will become part of the FortiGate LAN interface. You can learn more about the VLAN tagging on Proxmox here. The LAN interface connects to the LAN bridge vmbr2 on VLAN 40. And deployed a FortiGate firewall in Proxmox, and its WAN link is connected to the internet VLAN bridge (vmbr0), which is 100 stretched to my internet modem in bridged mode. We will add a FortiGate firewall in this setup and see how that works.Īs you can see, I have separated the LAN and the WAN traffic using a VLAN on the Layer 2 switch. The Proxmox server is connected to a Layer 2 switch that provides internet connectivity for the VMs running in the Proxmox server and the LAN users, including the management PC. Both of them will have a virtual fortigate LAN interface as the gateway.įortiGate KVM image – you can download that from here.Ĭhoose the version and on the right, download the new deployment of FortiGate for KVM.Īfter downloading extract the file, and you will get fortios.qcow2.īelow is the topology that we are going to use. After the deployment, we will test the network from the physical LAN and the virtual LAN. In this blog, we will install the FortiGate firewall on a Proxmox VE server and design a small network with it. You can install a fortigate firewall using qcow2 image in Proxmox, and it works perfectly fine, just like any other operating system on Proxmox. Because of that reason, many users think that they cannot install a fortigate firewall in Proxmox. Instead, you will have different image formats for cloud environment, VMware ova, KVM qcow2, etc. When you go about installing a fortigate firewall in Proxmox, you won’t be able to find an ISO image. In Proxmox, the default way to install a virtual machine is by using an iso image. Test the network from the physical LAN.Ĭan a FortiGate firewall be installed in Proxmox?.Configure the rule to allow internet traffic.Set the credential for the FortiGate firewall.Import the FortiGate QCOW2 image to the virtual machine.Create a FortiGate virtual machine in Proxmox.Transfer the FortiGate qcow2 file to Proxmox.Deploy the FortiGate firewall in Proxmox.
Access the Proxmox server from the management PC.Configure the bridge interface in Proxmox.Can a FortiGate firewall be installed in Proxmox?.
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