New FortiOS on EVE-NG

[EhsRjb]

Hello there,

We have a couple of challenges in deploying FortiGate and FortiWeb on EVE-NG Community in the Lab. As you know, the current exam version is based on FortiOS 7.6 and this renewing is probably going to continue, which means we have to get ready for next versions.

The problem is:

1. When we download FortiGate 7.6.4 & 7.6.3, both version looks incompatible with EVE-NG on VMWare workstation (25H2 and 17.5) and Hyper-V. The former hangs in "Formating shared partition and the later hangs in a stage ahead (somewhere logging about IPS..... ). Some folks advised using V7.2.x or... . But, this is not the answer I'm looking for. Same problem with last to versions of Fortiweb.

2. As you all may knows, Fortinet has made changes in licensing policies. Reports says V7.6 needs a valid license even for lab setup. This makes the case a little complicated, because we could use a 2-months Eval license before. If your recommend is to raise a ticket and asking for Evaluation license, I sadly must disagree and say: we need more than one node in the setup, at least 2 of each appliance for different designs at the same time (Exp, Core and Edge Firewall or different WAF for 2 separate segment of network).

Please share your idea and experiences.