Fortigate as a bandwidth controller

[RamoFlor]

Hello, maybe someone can guide me, I want to use a fortigate (box or VM) to dedicate it to the task of controlling the bandwidth of my users. What should I take into account to determine which box or VM is best suited?

[PC]

If you have a VM environment with spare resources and you want to go that route then compare to the VM performance.
https://www.fortinet.com/content/dam/fortinet/assets/data-sheets/fortigate-vm.pdf

For hardware appliances then compare to
https://www.fortinet.com/content/dam/fortinet/assets/data-sheets/Fortinet_Product_Matrix.pdf

I typically use the NGFW throughput to give myself lots of room for enabling features. For what you ...

[RamoFlor]

Thanks Peter for your comments.
Rowan recommends an equipment with NP6 processor, I see that the 300E fits as well as the Throughput.
I am trying to find out if there are any limitations regarding the number of shaping poliliters or profiles, the data sheet does not indicate this.

[PC]

https://docs.fortinet.com/max-value-table

I would start with this to see if you can find any of the limits then reach out directly to Fortinet with the specifics. The 100F has a lot of power so I would consider that when you look at the specs. 

[RamoFlor]

According to the link provided, I found the following data


100F100
Ffirewall.shaper.per-ip-shaper 32
firewall.shaper.traffic-shaper 32
firewall.address 20000

Does this indicate that I can only have 32 traffic shaping policies?

[rowan_kaag]

That is correct.