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parahvars
parahvars
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January 2, 2026
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Migrating to FortiSwitch from 3rd Party Switch

  • January 2, 2026
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I have a bunch of sites that have a FortiGate and a Netgear switch.

Port 1 on the firewall is a hardware switch (LAN), and Port 1 then connects to the Netgear. We also have a voice VLAN as a sub-interface of the hardware switch.

We are migrating these switches to FortiSwitch soon and are seeking the most effective way to do so. We have a couple of sites that use FortiSwitch, but it is an aggregate interface with FortiLink, not a hardware switch interface.

Is there an easy way to do this migration without having to completely redo the entire config? We have a fortimanager if that makes any difference.

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AEK
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AEK
SuperUser
January 4, 2026

I'd proceed as follows:

  1. Plug the FSW to the FGT
  2. Configure the FortiLink with all required VLANs (same as the existing VLANs on Netgear)
  3. Prepare the firewall policies (same as existing)
  4. Try migrate a couple of non-critical hosts from Netgear to FSW in order to validate the new installation
  5. Once testes you can migrate the remaining hosts during your maintenance windows
AEK
filiaks1
filiaks1
Explorer III
January 4, 2026

You can also try leveraging AI as an example Ai Demo to Convert Palo Alto Firewalls to Terraform-FortiOS Firewalls that can be used for switch to switch.

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