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Description
This article explains how to deploy Fortinet VM in AHV Nutanix.

Problem:

When the VM is deployed by creating an image of the qcow2 disk into image service in AHV, it will be possible to boot up the VM correctly. 
The disks over SCSI bus must be mapped. However, when checking the storage, it will show: no storage available. 
Since there is no storage and the boot is happening from a read-only qcow2 image, then any changes made to the VM would get lost after the reboot.


To check if the disk is detected by the VM:

#diagnose hardware disk

Logging into the device:

Username: admin
Password: <blank>

To configure the IP address of interface one:

#config sys interface
edit port1
set ip <ipaddress> <net mask> (eg. set ip 10.1.1.1 255.255.255.0)
end

Once the IP address is configured, the following command can be run to check the configuration:

#show sys interface


Scope

FortiOS versions prior 5.4.3


Solution
The problem is due to the fact that the disks are attached to this VM over SCSI bus. 
The problem is exactly the same even if the image is deployed on KVM hypervisor.

To resolve the issue, do the following:

1) Create / Update the VM and remove all the disk (if they are already attached)
2) Attach the boot disk (2GB) as PCI
3) Create a new data disk of minimum 30GB and attach it over PCI bus as well
4) Attach a NIC to the VM
5) Boot the VM

When the VM is booted after configuring it using the above steps, at the time of first boot the VM will create LVM and storage will be available.

There is no performance impact for using the disks on the PCI bus and there should not be any performance concerns.

Note: As of FortiManager/FortiAnalyzer 5.4.3 and Nutanix 5.x., the disks must be deployed on SCSI, as PCI may not work correctly.

For more information refer to the VM installation guides at docs.fortinet.com.

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