It covers metrics like CPU, memory, disk and network usage within a single sensor per VM. The VMware Virtual Machine (SOAP) sensor monitors the VM using VMWare SOAP protocol. Let’s start with monitoring the VMs from the outside, using VMware’s view on the VMs. VMs can be monitored from outside, so from the VMware ESXi layer, or from inside, so from within the running guest operating system. Note that once a Thin Provisioned block is allocated, it remains on the volume regardless of whether you have deleted data, etc.Let’s leave the hardware and ESXi layer and head on to the next level, the virtual machines or in short VMs. This allows you to float space between your servers, and expand your storage when your size monitoring indicates there is a problem. Other volumes can take the remaining space.
Connect the FortiGate-VM to the network.Īllocates the disk space statically (no other volumes can take the space), but does not write zeros to the blocks until the first write takes place to that block during runtime (which includes a full disk format).Īllocates the disk space statically (no other volumes can take the space), and writes zeros to all blocks.Īllocates the disk space only when a write occurs to a block, but the total volume size is reported by VMFS to the OS.The message Deployment Completed Successfully is shown. In the Ready to Complete page, review the template configuration, and ensure that Power on after deployment is not enabled.You must set the destination network for this entry to access the device console. Network 1 maps to port1 of the FortiGate-VM. In the Network Mapping page, map the networks used in this OVF template to networks in your inventory, and then select Next.
In the Details page, verify the OVF template details (product name, download size, size on disk, and description), and then select Next.In the Source page, select the source location of the OVF file, select Browse to locate the OVF file on your computer, and then select Next.In the vSphere client home page, select File > Deploy OVF Template to start the OVF Template wizard.Launch the vSphere client, enter the IP address or host name of your VMware server and your user name and password, and then select Login.
To create the FortiGate-VM virtual machine:
Use the vSphere client to deploy the FortiGate OVF template and create the FortiGate-VM virtual machine on the VMware ESXi server. Validating the FortiGate-VM license with FortiManager Uploading the FortiGate-VM virtual appliance license Registering the FortiGate-VM virtual applianceĭownloading the FortiGate-VM virtual appliance deployment package FortiGate-VM virtual appliance evaluation licenseįortiGate-VM virtual licenses and resources