Building a core network with Fortinet products

This video shows how to build a Core + Agg network with Fortinets FortiGates and FortiSwitches.

[@chunji6489]

Thanks for the tip !

[@rickguthier1037]

This was fantastic! Thanks

[@BigScottTheNetworkGuy]

This seems like a great video, unfortunately it has no sound. Tried 3 browsers and 2 systems.

[@fortifred]

There is no sound. Text in video explains.

[@DannyMaas]

Thanks for the video. Is there also an upgrade order when you want to upgrade FortiSwitchOS?

[@fortifred]

Really sorry about the late answer. In case you havent found out already i would guide you to the release notes. Mostly it is not necessary to follow an upgrade patch for FSW but just in case, read the release notes.

[@DannyMaas]

@@fortifred Thanks, and no problem. The release notes are sometimes a bit vague about this.

[@bobgreene438]

@@DannyMaas Check the compatibility list in the support portal. Some versions aren't happy when you mix them.

[@andreisucu5182]

Hello, do you know if there is any FortiSwitch VM publicly available. I know about fortigate VM but I wanted to make a full lab and test this.

[@AhmadSwailem]

what if i had a +3 AGG Switches? where should i configure the ICL link? and would it be necessary to have more than one link? one link for ICL and the rest auto-isl ?

[@fortifred]

Hi, sorry about the late answer. You can only have 2 switches in a MCLAG-pair. The ICL should always be redundant in a production environment in case of an optic failure. And of course it is also possible to dual-connect each member in a MCLAG-pair upstreams or downstreams.

[@AhmadSwailem]

@@fortifred many thanks i have implemented the environment for a two high available Core Switche in MC-LAG with 48 Access Switch all together within the fortilink central management Thanks again for your reply

[@dominikszymanski3751]

@@fortifred At first thank you for your excellent video. Do you have an idea why this network topology didn't made it into the FortiSwitch documentation? What I really like is the low amount of ports needed to setup this network - especially if using 10 GB/s ports for upstream / icl. While FortiSwitch models only have 4x 10 GB/s ports, this is relevant when trying to connect also two servers to the Core-Switches with 10 GB/s.