Technical Tip: How to hot add memory on FortiGate VMs on private cloud platforms

[amalik]

Description	This article describes how to hot add virtual memory to FortiGate VMs, a feature which became available as of FortiOS v6.4.3.
Scope	FortiGate v6.4.3 or higher VMs on a private cloud such as VMware ESXi or KVM.
Solution	Instructions for VMware ESXi: Select the relevant VM, right-click it and select Edit settings. Under Hardware -> Memory, increase or add memory as required. Select Ok once configured. Login to the FortiGate CLI with SSH or console. Run the following command: exec memory add Example output: exec mem add Onlined 32 memory blocks. If no memory is added, the command will have no output.