Cyber Monday hint: Freemium offerings

[Dannу]

Fortinet has many freemium offerings, including FortiGate, FortiManager, FortiAnalyzer and more.
Of course they have no covering of either FortiGuard subscription or tech. support, but a lot is still included:

Freemium product (permanent trial)	What's in it (i.e. what it manages)	Link
FortiGate VM	3 interfaces, firewall policies, and routes	Admin Guide
FortiManager VM	3 devices / VDOMs 2 ADOMs	License Guide
FortiAnalyzer VM	3 devices / VDOMs 2 ADOMs 1 GB/day of logs + 500 GB storage	License Guide
FortiLAN Cloud	free subscription for FortiLAN Cloud 30 FortiAPs 3 FortiSwitches	User Guide
FortiPresence	1 free site 15 FortiAPs	Release Notes

So even if you just maintain a FortiGate cluster and a remote FortiGate, there's no reason to manage them locally because a FortiManager VM + FortiAnalyzer VM is freely available to manage them centrally!

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[ihaider10]

Didn't know about this, many thanks for the tip.

[Umer221]

Thanks for sharing this info.

[JohnRogers]

I'm not able to find the download pages for FortiManager or FortiAnalyzer. Could you please share the links? Thanks!

[Dannу]

https://support.fortinet.com/Download/VMImages.aspx

[Katoomba]

This information should be spread far and wide! Thanks for posting!

[pbecuatoriano]

Great post Danny , just remember also the Fortigate has 1 CPU and 2GB memory , but works great for a small lab.

[pbecuatoriano]

Also we have created some fast trials like the https://www.fortinet.com/offers/fortimonitor-free-trial FortiMonitor and on the Forticloud account you can manage to get also the FortiRecon for 30 days and other solutions.