I would really like the Fortigate to come with a Virtual Copy for HA only.

[David_Bower]

I would really like the Fortigate to come with a Virtual Copy that would only be available on-line if the hardware version failed. Its only purpose would be to keep the company on-line for a limited time, say 10 days.  Meanwhile the IT people would have time to fix or replace the hardware.  With the time limitation and a specific paring to the hardware, there would be little chance the software misuse.

This would really put Fortinet at the front of the competition.

[David_Bower]

Our plan is to upgrade to the 300D after the first of the year and going back to a 200D would slow thing down to much.

Local Storage 16GB vs 120 GB

Firewall Throughput (1518 / 512 / 64 byte UDP packets) 3 Gbps vs 8 Gpbs

Firewall Throughput (Packets Per Second) 4.5 Mpps vs 12 Mpps

The other idea would be to allow the same license for the Forticare and FortiGuard UTM to be active on two connected (HA) devices.  Then, it makes HA really affordable.

In Reply to Norris Carden:

I really like the idea of automated configuration backups to the cloud.

In this situation, since the D models are much more capable that the C models, I would suggest looking at backing down to a pair of 200D in an active-active HA pair.

Norris Carden, CISSP, CISA | Sr. Security Engineer | Arnett Group™