| Description |
This article describes how to enable WAN optimization for FortiGate-VM.
FortiGate-VM01 to VMUL WAN optimization requires 'Disk Option/ Toggle'. |
| Scope | FortiGate-VM v6.4. |
| Solution |
For FortiGate-VM, it will required 2 virtual disks to unlock WANopt as a workaround. Ensure to create 2 virtual disks on the FortiGate-VM.
2 Virtual-Disks have been added, but only 1 automatically formatted and configured on the system. This one is also assigned to log usage:
show system storage
Format the new disk to execute the format command. It is important to know what is the disk reference, and then execute:
diagnose hardware deviceinfo disk
There will be 3 disk views: The first one is the boot and the others are the Virtual-Disks and usually have the reference number 16 to the first Virtual-Disk and 32 to the second one (The one that was not automatically added to the system).
Execute the command to format as below:
execute disk format 32
At this point, the System will ask to reboot the system to execute all the procedures (format and configured) on the new disk.
Once multiple virtual disks are present, run the following command to enable WAN optimization:
Note: Enabling GUI view for FortiGate-VM WAN optimization under System -> Feature Visibility is unavailable there is not at least 1 disk defined with 'wanopt' usage configured. |
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