FortiVM and ESXi

[IB_LM]

Hello,

I am deploying a fortigateVM on an esxi machine. The way the fortiVM is setup is with trunk ports for internal and external ports.

This means I need to assign more than one vlan to each of the VM's nics. How would I be able to assign trunk to the fortiVM port?

Thanks

[SRoland]

That is called Virtual Guest Tagging. Basically you will need to make sure that the VLANs present on the physical switch and set the port-group to VLAN id 4095 on a standard vSwitch, or specify the VLAN range on a vDS.

You can read about it here :

Virtual Guest Tagging (VGT)

and here:

Sample configuration of virtual machine VLAN Tagging (VGT Mode) in ESX (1004252)

HTH,

Roland

[IB_LM]

Hey Roland,

Thanks for your reply.

To have these VLANs pass to the VM untouched, I would have to enter them separately from VLANs which are tagged, right?

So does this mean that I would have to use a dedicated for for this task? for example for internal and external FW ports would have to be separate from other trunk port relaying to other VMs...

Thanks!