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vladyslaw
vladyslaw
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August 11, 2019
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Migration from Physical appliance to Virtual

  • August 11, 2019
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Hi all, 

 Today we have a physical FortiAnalyzer 200D since it will end of life soon, we want to migrate to FortiAnalyzer VM,

Can any body give a best practice or suggestions  for the process? 

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    Frosty
    Frosty
    New Member
    August 12, 2019

    Can't comment regarding Best Practice, but about 18 months ago we moved from an FL100C to FAZ-VM and we used the following process:

    * obtain FAZ-VM and deploy (we are on vSphere)

    * configure basics

    * build custom reports again 

    (we had about half a dozen custom reports, so obtained SQL queries from old FL100C, rebuilt them on the new FAZ-VM, etc).

     

    I can't recall whether there was any export/import process for the reports themselves.  I have a vague recollection that I just re-did them, using the old designs as a general guide, so probably only the SQL was copied over.

     

    We're really happy with the performance of the FAZ-VM compared to the old physical appliance.  Massively faster on our infrastructure (all-flash storage).

    emnoc
    emnoc
    New Member
    August 12, 2019

    You should be able to export reports on FAZ. We too where on FAZ VM. The report would be a file with <name>.dat and you import the reports. I would make a backup of the reports import the new reports after license registration/binding and direct the appliances to the new FAZ.

     

     

    brazz_FTNT
    Staff
    brazz_FTNT
    Staff
    August 12, 2019

    Hey, 

     

    What is the Version running on your FAZ ?

     

    Thanks

     

     

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