Technical Tip: How to create FortiAnalyzer Instance at GCP using Shell

1. Download the image from the support portal (choose new development):

2. Go to Google Cloud -> Search -> Bucket and select 'Create New':

3. Select the bucket created, choose 'Upload', and upload the image downloaded from the support portal.

4. Go to Google Shell to run gcloud config:

5. Create an Image of FortiAnalyzer.

project=XXXXXX-XXX-testing << Source of GCP
bucket=nurXXXX <<< The bucket just created
source_image=FAZ_VM64_GCP-v7.6.3.F-buildXXX-FORTINET.out.gcp.tar.gz << Image upload to bucket
image_name=fortianalyzer-vm-image << Instance Name

6. Run the Image of FortiAnalyzer.

gcloud compute images create $image_name \
--project=$project \
--source-uri=https://storage.googleapis.com/$bucket/$source_image \
--storage-location=XXX > Bucket storage location

Output:

Created [https://storage.googleapis.com/XXXXXXXXXXX]

Name: fortianalyzer-vm-image

Project:

Family:

Deprecated:

Status:READY

7. Create a FortiAnalyzer instance:

project=<your project id>
zone=<Choose region>
serviceaccount=<your service account>
image_name=fortigate-vm-image
image=projects/$project/global/images/$image_name

8. Run FortiAnalyzer.

gcloud compute instances create doc-fortianalyzer-vm \
--project=$project \
--zone=$zone \
--machine-type=n2d-standard-2 \
--network-interface=private-network-ip=10.0.X.XX,subnet=test,no-address \
--can-ip-forward \
--service-account=$serviceaccount \
--scopes=https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform \
--create-disk=auto-delete=yes,boot=yes,device-name=fortianalyzer-vm-boot,image=$image,mode=rw,size=10,type=projects/$project/zones/$zone/diskTypes/pd-balanced \
--create-disk=auto-delete=yes,device-name=fortianalyzer-vm-log,mode=rw,size=10,type=projects/$project/zones/$zone/diskTypes/pd-balanced

NAME: fortianalyzer-vm
ZONE: asia-east1-a
MACHINE_TYPE: n2d-standard-2
PREEMPTIBLE:
INTERNAL_IP: 10.0.X.XX
EXTERNAL_IP:
STATUS: RUNNING