Technical Tip: Benefits of FortiGates with local disk storage space

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Description	This article describes the benefits of a FortiGate with a local disk storage space
Scope	FortiGate v6.x, v7.x, and v7.2.x.
Solution	The following are features and benefits that are available only with FortiGate with local disk storage: To enable FortiView from Disk: Enable disk logging from the FortiGate GUI. To include sniffer traffic and local-deny traffic when FortiView from Disk: config report setting     set report-source forward-traffic sniffer-traffic local-deny-traffic end Related document: FortiView from disk To use packet capture, the FortiGate must have a disk. It is possible to enable capture-packet in the firewall policy: Performing a sniffer trace or packet capture WAN Optimization requires a local storage disk:Technical Tip: FortiOS WAN optimization Certain features such as explicit proxy, web caching, and WAN optimization will only be available on models which have a hard disk: Technical Tip: Explicit Proxy, web caching and WAN optimization features not showing on supported Fo... Local logging and Reporting: Technical Tip: Local Reports Store-and-upload feature for FortiAnalyzer:Device logs FortiGate file quarantine: Technical Tip: How to configure FortiGate file quarantine DLP logging: DLP log support for CEF Using the root FortiGate with disk to store historic user and device information: https://fortinetweb.s3.amazonaws.com/docs.fortinet.com/v2/attachments/de1e129a-0283-11ea-8977-005056... (Page 48) The Audit Trail feature of Workflow Management in the FortiGate requires disk logging: Add Policy change summary and Policy expiration to Workflow Management