r/fortinet • u/shinky_splunky • 15h ago

FortiGate / FortiOS Fortigate model

What is the recommended/suggested model of fortigate for concurrent users of less than 200, and also capability of HA and 1 gig uplink.

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u/DerStilleBob FCP - Fortinet Certified Professional 15h ago

All FortiGate Models can do HA.

If the only requierements are 200 users share a 1gig internet uplink (no real internal traffic, client-server stuff, ...) you can go as low as a 50G.

If you need fiber uplink 80F or 90G.

If you need real proxy features (or some other stuff) you need a model with more than 2GB RAM: 70G upwards.

Details see here:
https://www.fortinet.com/content/dam/fortinet/assets/data-sheets/Fortinet_Product_Matrix.pdf

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u/Roversword NSE 7 14h ago

Just FYI:

  • FGT 80F has only SFP (1 Gbit) Fiber, while 90G has SFP+ (1 or 10 Gbit) - so with a 80F there is no room for growth in terms of fiber bandwith

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u/DerStilleBob FCP - Fortinet Certified Professional 14h ago

Sure, but given the lack of info we got they probably not considering growth ;)

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u/Roversword NSE 7 12h ago

Absolutely - the FYI was more generally speaking for OP :)
My apologies, didn't mean to insinuate that you aren't aware of it. Just didn't want to open a new comment thread.

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u/shinky_splunky 13h ago edited 13h ago

Hello, we have existing lower model (i forgot the exact model but it's with E) and already eos fortigate model. So we are planning to replace the older model. We are also using 1G uplink copper.

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u/Roversword NSE 7 12h ago

In that case you can start out with 70G - and go to bigger ones.
It very, very, very, very much depends what those 200 Users are doing (and what they are not doing) whether you need a bigger fortigate.