Installing FortiHypervisor

Boot your device with either the CDROM (ISO) or USB installation media.  Note that you may need to consult your hardware manufacturer’s guide to change the default boot order.

Once booted, assuming the network and disks have been correctly identified, the following prompt will be displayed.

Select the correct disk on which to install FortiHypervisor

Accept the prompt to continue (assuming this is the correct disk and you are happy to lose any data currently stored.

The disk partition process will begin.  After several minutes, the installation process should complete.

Follow the instructions on screen to complete the install process and reboot.

Continue the configuration process as per hardware appliances.

Installing FortiHypervisor in VMWare ESXi

Whilst not recommended for general use, it is possible to install FortiHypervisor into an existing hypervisor such as VMWare ESXi.  This is useful for demo purposes and testing.

To install FortiHypervisor in VMWare ESXi, create a new VM

Select the storage destination.

Set the Guest Operating System to Other Linux (64 bit)

Assign network resources to the VM instance.

Assign disk resource to the VM instance

Review the configuration, “edit the virtual machine settings before completion” and click continue.

Configure the Datastore ISO file to point to the FortiHypervisor install ISO and select Connect at power on.

Follow the install process detailed in the section “Installing FortiHypervisor”.