Technical Tip: Benefits of FortiGates with local disk storage space

nradia_FTNT · ‎02-22-2023

Description

This article describes the benefits of a FortiGate with a local disk storage space

Scope

FortiGate 6.x, 7.x, and 7.2.x.

Solution

The following are features and benefits that are available only with FortiGate with local disk storage:

1) To enable FortiView from Disk: Enable disk logging from the FortiGate GUI.

To include sniffer traffic and local-deny traffic when FortiView from Disk:

# config report setting

set report-source forward-traffic sniffer-traffic local-deny-traffic

end

2) To use packet capture, the FortiGate must have a disk. It is possible enable capture-packet in the firewall policy:

3) WAN Optimization requires local storage disk:

4) Certain features such as explicit proxy, web caching, and WAN optimization will only be available on models which have a hard disk:

5) Local logging and Reporting:

6) Store-and-upload feature for FortiAnalyzer:

7) FortiGate file quarantine:

8) DLP logging:

9) Using the root FortiGate with disk to store historic user and device information: