Virtual Fortigate HA

[1mm]

Hello,

I have several question regarding HA (Active-Standby) Fortigate virtual. 

I had some issues when I was trying to configure HA in virtual environment. I used this article: https://docs.fortinet.com/document/fortigate/7.4.0/administration-guide/900885/ha-active-passive-clu...

When I enabled HA my firewalls went down and after that I had no access to them via CLI, Web and so on. But If I then break HA (I have access via ESXi console) then access to the firewalls appeared. But I found workaround - I configured HA with "Unicast Heartbeat". HA works, but sometimes when I do some configuration changes I see "HA not synchronizing" alert. I would like to know is it normal behaviour on not?

Thanks in advice. 

[hbac · Accepted solution]

Hi @1mm, 

That's not a normal behavior. For virtual environment, please refer to https://docs.fortinet.com/document/fortigate-private-cloud/7.4.0/vmware-esxi-administration-guide/39...

Regards,

[1mm]

Thanks