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Visitor III
August 27, 2026
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Migration to VMware

  • August 27, 2026
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Hello Experts, we are looking at migrating our existing FortiAuth and FortiManager to a new VM on Vmware and re-ip both of them (currently sitting HyberV), havent done this before and would appreciate some insights on how i can perform this and roll back in case something happens.

FortiAuth - things to consider to migrate from hyperV to vmware and re-ip FortiAuth, backup config process and tokens etc, if we can restore the entire VM from HyperV not sure if thats an option etc.

 

FortiManager - move to vmware from hyperv and re-ip it, things to consider and migration process and sync back all other site fortigate boxes and perform tests etc.

Thanks,
KD

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AEK
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SuperUser
August 27, 2026

Hi Kunal

There are official procedures for that.

Here is for FAC:

https://docs.fortinet.com/document/fortiauthenticator/8.0.3/administration-guide/402744/platform-migration

And here is for FMG:

 

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