FortiGate 70F?

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February 24, 2022
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I just heard a rumor about 70F to replace 60F due to chip shortage. But I can't find anything online yet. Does anyone have more detail of this?

Thanks,

Toshi

FortiGate

AlexC-FTNT

Staff

Besides the fact that 70F is not announced and no specs are publicly available, what is your concern regarding this change? Hypothetically speaking, if the existing 60F was replaced by a 70F through an RMA process if/after the customer agrees, I would personally consider this a free upgrade (certainly, thinking that the performance exceeds the 60F). And on a side-note: why would there be new chips for a new unit, and no manufactured chips for existing units/or units is stock?

"my 2 chips" :)

Toshi_EsumiAuthor

SuperUser

The first thing comes to my mind is HA situation with multiple 60Fs. If one is RMAed, can it be replaced with a 70F? My guess is it can't.

I'm assuming everything from outside would look the same including all ports. I just want to confirm.

pminarik

Staff

When you RMA a unit, you get asked if it's a part of a cluster, so that the RMA team can ensure that you end up with two units that can actually be clustered together. (i.e. you'd get two 70Fs if it so happened that there were no 60Fs available and replacement by a 70F were necessary)

Toshi_EsumiAuthor

SuperUser

Still preliminary info at this time. Probably need to wait until Q3.
https://www.fortinet.com/content/dam/fortinet/assets/data-sheets/fortigate-70f-series.pdf

Toshi

G-Fobasso

Staff

I just saw this release and believe the 70f amongst others is quite interesting….

https://www.sdxcentral.com/articles/news/fortinet-re-engineers-firewalls-to-address-supply-concerns/2022/05/

OliverHeinz

Visitor III

As we currently have constant memory problems with 60Es in HA cluster with current 7.0 firmware (IPS, HA, updated taking up too much memory, even after reducing wad-workers and ips threads) we would be very interested in the 70F memory size. Does anybody have the hardware specs yet?

emseniconsulting

New Member

memory more than 60F, reckon 4GB. Firmware upgrades slower than the other units, not sure why

Tony11

Explorer

emseniconsultin, could you confirm the amount of memory on the FG-70F unit by running:

get hardware status

Thanks!

emseniconsulting

New Member

Model name: FortiGate-70F
ASIC version: SOC4
CPU: ARMv8
Number of CPUs: 8
RAM: 3717 MB
EMMC: 3742 MB(MLC) /dev/mmcblk0
Hard disk: not available
USB Flash: not available
Network Card chipset: FortiASIC NP6XLITE Adapter (rev.)