FortiOS 6.x.x is the Windows Vista of the FortiOSes

[dumplingeater]

Managing around 150 Fortigates in all possible configurations, lots of HAs, vdom multitenancy etc etc. All running on the 5.6.x, none or very minor problems. This is the Windows 7 of FortiOS. Recently forced to F series and so 6.x.x which I tried to avoid like the plague until I could. 

On the 4 pairs of FGs I have running 6.2.2:

- HA randomly kicks in and out of the blue i get Forticloud notifications of HA member moved for no reason at all. This happened with a pair almost out of the box, just upgraded to 6.2.2 and one ip configured. Bam! Fortigate HA and master is unresponsive.

- Gui continuously crashes forcing me to delete the process in cli

- Gui just stops responding unless you go there and refresh the entire page if you click too many things too fast.

- DHCP randomly stops working. On one FG60E, it would not work on interface 2, but perfectly working on internal 3.

- the logging GUI is a pile of garbage, application filter will show no logs (which I am forced to look into Forticloud instead), webfilter takes forever to load (memory AND forticloud), even on memory.

Get your stuff together Fortinet, you put that SD-WAN in the brochure you are happy now? now go back and fix this damn thing or at least allow people to use 5.6.x on the F series.

[James_G]

Why did you skip 6.0.x (6.0.6)

i think you missed a trick going to 6.2.2 direct

Edit - seems available for 100f but not 60f - what are you using?