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Wednesday, June 15, 2016

Things you can learn from a million users

Recently, I had the pleasure of leading a FortiGate-5000 series chassis deployment. While I’ve worked on the 5000 series before, this was my first “soup to nuts” deployment of our 4th generation chassis. The 5000 series is not merely a very large appliance. It is a vessel for FortiGate and FortiController blades. The firewall is actually a cluster of FG-5001D worker blades that rely on the 5144C chassis for power and connectivity. With two NP6 ASICS, each FG-5001D has similar throughput characteristics to the FG-1500D appliance. However, apart from the physical dimensions, there are a few other differences between the two:

  • More RAM to handle high session counts
  • Additional CPU power for content/NGFW
  • 40GBE support via QSFP+ on the front panel
In some respects, an individual FG-5001D blade has more in common with the 3700D. However, the party trick of the FG-5001D is its potential rack density. Up to 12 can be deployed in an ActiveN scenario. Achieving a similar capacity with a stack of 2U 1500D’s is likely to give your data center planner a cardiac event.


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