Why I Replaced the FortiGate with a UniFi UDM Pro SE | Home Network | Unboxing

[@KBTrainings]

What do you think of the UDM Pro SE...? Do you anything you want me to cover on the UDM Pro SE...? Thank you for watching! Guy

[@PowerUsr1]

Have you dived into pfSense? I deployed quite a few and perfer those over UDMP

[@ronscopes]

Did you have to allow the UDM-SE to do all of your router NAT or is there a bridge mode ?

[@ethanoconnor7367]

you wouldnt want anything else to handle that tbh

[@KBTrainings]

@ronscopes, yes I did

[@ethanoconnor7367]

@@KBTrainings What did you want running it? Seems like a waste of $

[@KBTrainings]

@ethanoconnor7367 O was responding to the original comment that I missed and came up after your response. My UDM does all layer 3, no need for another device. It's directly connected to the ISP DOCSIS modem and Fiber ONT.

[@ronscopes]

How do you view your cameras or recordings on your mobile phone (iPhone)?

[@eddiek8185]

Glad I stumbled upon this video Guy very informative. What model of APs would you recommend with the UniFi UDM Pro SE?

[@asphere8]

My understanding is that the UDM SE and UDM Pro share a backplane limitation, so you won't see any benefit from aggregating ports 7 and 8 like you said at 6:05. You'd have to use one of your 10g or 2.5g ports to connect to a switch with a more capable backplane. I'm still planning on picking one of these up as soon as they come back in stock in Canada, but I hope I'm wrong about the backplane because that could be very useful!

[@kkizazisana6148]

Thank you very much, your contents are very helpful. In my second term in the IT field, I found videos more helpful.

[@KBTrainings]

Glad to hear that

[@neilos2085]

What about where you have multiple WAN connections? The fortios has sdwan options, does the UniFi?

[@KBTrainings]

UniFi has WAN failover. Will have too experience it, but it is not better than SDWAN in the FortiGate. Will talk about it on the channel.

[@krisenpillay5804]

I have the UDM Pro (non-SE), is it worth moving over to the UDM Pro - SE?

[@recklessthor4]

I don't think so

[@KBTrainings]

Unless you need those PoE ports

[@recklessthor4]

@KBTrainings true, I'm starting from scratch so I'm going to get the se and some u7

[@alanandrews7403]

I am in the same position, wanting to move from a CloudKey to UDM SE. I would love to see your migration step by step. Questions, when you adopt the UDM SE, do you have to start from scratch or can you move functions from the cloud key to the udm?

[@KBTrainings]

Hey Alan, I just did the migration yesterday and it went well. A lot of obstacles that I could've been avoided if I knew... instead of spending almost 4 hours on it like I did. I will make a video showing a better way to do it step by step to save some time.

[@jamesandersen0007]

very practical information thanks video👍💯

[@KBTrainings]

Thank you James! 🙏

[@davew6969]

Awesome video! Is there a reason why you decided to use the ports for the IP cameras and not the AP’s?

[@KBTrainings]

I will use the ports for APs as well. I have 3 APs and 14 IP Cameras. On the UDM Pro, after using 4 ports for my 4 VLANs (Surprisingly, I just found out that port aggregation is not supported and trunking is not recommended on the UDM Pro SE... 🙅), I will add the 3 APs and 2 IP Cameras, just to relieve the switch. Thank you Dave 🙏

[@mirho3ein]

I really like your channel and videos. Your videos gave me good eyes on fortigate, and i cant wait for your videos about unifi content, and how to make routing, vlan, dhcp, vpn,...

[@KBTrainings]

Glad you like them! Cool, coming soon.

[@chivainmanfoumbi9026]

Cool.... is it a firewall ? can we do secured vpn with it ?

[@KBTrainings]

Yes, it is a UniFi firewall or "security gateway" as they call it. Yes, it can do L2TP VPN for remote access and site-to-site.

[@smokiebv]

if you can't afford 200-300 usd per year for the Fortigate licences, then unifi is for you. On Unifi barely any visibility on network security or proper logs. On Fortigate you can do url filtering, DNS filtering, app control, etc. pretty good for IOT as well. You can't compare Unifi with Fortinet. Different purposes.

[@sawsaw2388]

This

[@zcsecure]

You can do all these things in Unifi...

[@andrewmcmahon2464]

You still get ips and ids with fortigate without a licence you just don’t get updated signatures without a subscription

[@KBTrainings]

Good to know! Thanks!

[@andrewmcmahon2464]

@@KBTrainings there is also a way to add custom IPS signatures in fortigate from snort. You need forticonverter to do it and you can convert Snort IPS signatures to fortigate signatures and you upload the customer rules

[@KBTrainings]

Nice!

[@KBTrainings]

Will try it!

[@paologianono2539]

nice very nice....

[@KBTrainings]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@nexushexus4365]

It's not a Dream Machine Pro SE it's Dream Machine SE. During early access, it was called Dream Machine Pro SE.

[@brasilianloser]

The 8 ports are still sharing the same 1gb backplane from what I understand. So not really ideal use depending on devices.

[@jonneymendoza]

What do you mean? You mean that if you have say 4 connected devices on it, instead of it transfering up to 4gb, , 1 gb on each device, its split into 4 so 500mb per device?!?!?!

[@dan4315]

I don’t understand. Fortigate is a UTM device and there is a price to pay for owning one so why would you even consider using them in the first place? If you need a comprehensive security solution Fortigate is the answer and I for one don’t have a problem paying for UTM license renewal every year for my Fortigate. And yes it’s expensive but worth every dime in my perspective.

[@LVang152]

I want to stick with FortiNet! I don't like the annual subscription plan! My UCK needs a reset since the last 2 updates and feel like it's going to die one me.

[@ltt8733]

UDM IPS and IDS can’t compete with FortiGate

[@KBTrainings]

True 👍

[@KoenderNL]

I think it's a bad idea to install an SSD for your surveillance data. Better buy a NAS / surveillance HDD, as long as it's NOT a SMR drive. Otherwise the drive will be killed by the 24-hours data writting actions.

[@KBTrainings]

I read it somewhere, but would like to experience it and know how long it lasts. I have never had an SSD fail in production. Thanks Keon!

[@DanielMartinez-hc1nw]

@@KBTrainings Mine still going strong with no issue on my UDM pro.

[@spinthma]

Sad you left FortiGate, but I understand, …

[@KBTrainings]

Thank you. Will come back to it some day

[@brasilianloser]

If only it wasn't sold out for forever.

[@padraics]

Replace Fortinet with a "Dream Machine Pro Special Edition?" That's pretty cringe and don't see the point of a USG. Your ISPs AIO gateway has all the features of a USG except VLAN routing.

[@KBTrainings]

For my work and business, I just love exploring and being exposed to many gears, and don't have loyalty to any brands. BTW, I have already switched to a Check Point Quantum Spark.

[@Trini.Bombero]

Shame on you Fortinet, I recently got my own Fortigate and with that I think I wanna switch.

[@smokiebv]

biggest mistake. just pay for the licence. ask for 3 year licence such as UDM bundle and you practically get 3 years for the price of 2.

[@Garou0410]

Such a useless video. Just because you didn't want to pay for Forti license you bought this one?