High Availability (200D & 200D PoE)

[Muhammad_Umer]

Currently i have 2 fortigate firewall models 200D & 200D PoE. I want to perform High availability between both the firewalls.

If it is possible than it is fine, If it is not than please tell me the reasons. 

[ahmedsf]

Yes, you can implement HA on 200D. All you need is to have the knowledge of implementing HA, if not, I can help you.

Syed

[Muhammad_Umer]

You did not get my question.

Note that 1 model is 200D that is non PoE and the other one is 200D that is PoE.

Now HA has to be configured between these 2 firewalls that are 200D non PoE & 200D PoE.

[ede_pfau]

hi,

officially, for a HA cluster to form IDENTICAL hardware is required. Insofar, your question in valid and I'm afraid you will not like the answer.

BUT...starting in FOS v5.4 (or even v5.2) Fortinet introduced a setting to be able to ignore hardware differences in HA. I think it's an 'exec' command, the Handbook or CLI RefGuide will give you the exact syntax. I'm not sure it will work in your case but it's worth a try.

[emnoc]

Ede  has stated it right, same  hardware ,model, version.

The cmd  he's referencing

exec ha ignore-hardware-revision

http://kb.fortinet.com/kb/viewContent.do?externalId=FD35376&sliceId=1

Since in your  question and what was propose  these are not-like-is  models with minor revisin, so I don't  think that cmd will work and here's why.

The POE  model  get system status will show a "different" output than the   non-POE model. Just my 2cts

[rwpatterson]

The answer is in the command. "Hardware revision", not "hardware version".

[emnoc]

Funny, but yet so simple if you look at  it that way