FortiManager
FortiManager supports network operations use cases for centralized management, best practices compliance, and workflow automation to provide better protection against breaches.
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Description

This article describes why the FortiManager/FortiAnalyzer VM instance GUI notifications is showing a message:

'FortiManager VM requires minimum 8GB Memory and 4x vCPU' on the top right of the System Settings module.

 

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The notification message is applicable to any of the instance that runs on the VM platform e.g. VMware, KVM, AWS, Azure and etc.

 

The conditions that lead to the notification are:

 

- The allocated virtual CPU core is not meeting the minimum requirements which is 4x vCPU.

- The allocated memory is not meeting the minimum requirements which is 8x 1024MB = 8192MB.

- Any of the above conditions.

Scope FortiManager/FortiAnalyzer VM version 7.0 and above.
Solution

1) To verify, take example with FortiManager instance which running in VMware as follows

Run  # get sys performance.

 

Under the Memory section, the Total (Excluding Swap) is below 8GB.

The system will check on the total value here and if it is not over the 8GB threshold, the said notification will be generated on the GUI.

 

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2) To fix the issue, shutdown the instance and re-assign the memory to 8GB and re-power up and re-verify with the same CLI command in step (1) and the GUI notification should be disappeared. 

 

3) The same verification method also application to the total number of vCPU core allocated to the instance.

 

4) The example above is applicable to both FortiManager and FortiAnalyzer VM. 

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