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Administration Guide

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Virtual Machine

The FortiSandbox VM host is based on a modified hypervisor.

Model, License, and VM Information

Model

Base License*

Default VMs

Number of VM Hosts Supported

FSA-3000F

Windows 7

Windows 10

Office 2019

WIN7X64SP1O16 (with Office)

Supports 2 VM hosts by default, maximum up to 74 VM hosts.

For Cloud expansion, you can subscribe up to 200 Windows Cloud VMs.

FSA-3000E

Windows 7

Windows 8.1

Windows 10

Office 2016

WIN7X86VM (with Office)

WIN7X64VM

Supports 8 VM hosts by default, maximum up to 56 VM hosts.

For Cloud expansion, you can subscribe up to 200 Windows Cloud VMs.

FSA-2000E

Windows 7

Windows 8.1

Windows 10

Office 2016

WIN7X86SP1O16 (with Office)

Supports 4 VM hosts by default, maximum up to 24 VM hosts.

For Cloud expansion, you can subscribe up to 200 Windows Cloud VMs.

FSA-1000F

Windows 7

Windows 10

Office

WIN7X64SP1O16 (with Office)

Supports 2 VM hosts by default, maximum up to 14 VM hosts.

For Cloud expansion, you can subscribe up to 200 Windows Cloud VMs.

FSA-500F

Windows 7

Windows 10

Office

WIN7X64SP1O16 (with Office)

Supports 2 VM hosts by default, maximum up to 6 VM hosts.

For Cloud expansion, you can subscribe up to 200 Windows Cloud VMs.

FSAVM00

None

WIN7X86SP1O16 (with Office**)

WIN10X64VM (available for download**)

No VM host by default, maximum up to 8 VM hosts.

For Cloud expansion, you can subscribe up to 200 Windows Cloud VMs.

*Licenses pre-installed on the appliance.

**Both WIN7X86SP1O16 and WIN10X64VM will be listed as the default VM after the VM00_base.pkg is manually installed. Please refer to the deployment guide for more details.

The number of supported VM hosts for each model is only for images published by Fortinet. This number might be lower for custom images with high resource requirements.

You can download and use optional images from VM Settings > Optional VMs. The VM name shows the OS type. O16 in the name means Microsoft Office 2016 is installed.

The following software is installed on each pre-installed Windows guest image:

  • Adobe Flash Player
  • Adobe Reader
  • Java Run Time
  • MSVC Run Time
  • Microsoft .Net Framework
  • Microsoft Office software (only on certain VM types)
  • Web Browsers

Android VM is free to download and use.

You can build custom VM images but you must have software licenses for your custom images.

Other OS versions:

MacOS Mac OS X 10.11
Android Android OS 4.2.2
Linux Ubuntu 18 and Redhat 8

Virtual Machine

The FortiSandbox VM host is based on a modified hypervisor.

Model, License, and VM Information

Model

Base License*

Default VMs

Number of VM Hosts Supported

FSA-3000F

Windows 7

Windows 10

Office 2019

WIN7X64SP1O16 (with Office)

Supports 2 VM hosts by default, maximum up to 74 VM hosts.

For Cloud expansion, you can subscribe up to 200 Windows Cloud VMs.

FSA-3000E

Windows 7

Windows 8.1

Windows 10

Office 2016

WIN7X86VM (with Office)

WIN7X64VM

Supports 8 VM hosts by default, maximum up to 56 VM hosts.

For Cloud expansion, you can subscribe up to 200 Windows Cloud VMs.

FSA-2000E

Windows 7

Windows 8.1

Windows 10

Office 2016

WIN7X86SP1O16 (with Office)

Supports 4 VM hosts by default, maximum up to 24 VM hosts.

For Cloud expansion, you can subscribe up to 200 Windows Cloud VMs.

FSA-1000F

Windows 7

Windows 10

Office

WIN7X64SP1O16 (with Office)

Supports 2 VM hosts by default, maximum up to 14 VM hosts.

For Cloud expansion, you can subscribe up to 200 Windows Cloud VMs.

FSA-500F

Windows 7

Windows 10

Office

WIN7X64SP1O16 (with Office)

Supports 2 VM hosts by default, maximum up to 6 VM hosts.

For Cloud expansion, you can subscribe up to 200 Windows Cloud VMs.

FSAVM00

None

WIN7X86SP1O16 (with Office**)

WIN10X64VM (available for download**)

No VM host by default, maximum up to 8 VM hosts.

For Cloud expansion, you can subscribe up to 200 Windows Cloud VMs.

*Licenses pre-installed on the appliance.

**Both WIN7X86SP1O16 and WIN10X64VM will be listed as the default VM after the VM00_base.pkg is manually installed. Please refer to the deployment guide for more details.

The number of supported VM hosts for each model is only for images published by Fortinet. This number might be lower for custom images with high resource requirements.

You can download and use optional images from VM Settings > Optional VMs. The VM name shows the OS type. O16 in the name means Microsoft Office 2016 is installed.

The following software is installed on each pre-installed Windows guest image:

  • Adobe Flash Player
  • Adobe Reader
  • Java Run Time
  • MSVC Run Time
  • Microsoft .Net Framework
  • Microsoft Office software (only on certain VM types)
  • Web Browsers

Android VM is free to download and use.

You can build custom VM images but you must have software licenses for your custom images.

Other OS versions:

MacOS Mac OS X 10.11
Android Android OS 4.2.2
Linux Ubuntu 18 and Redhat 8