Manage FortiSwitch with FortiGate, FortiOS 7.0

[@madhanraj7092]

Im preparing myself for an implementation. And this is all i want... Thanks for this video...👍🤝

[@tonyle886]

thanks for uploading, keep them coming.

[@guptalakshay21]

very very informative. keep posting more. much thanks

[@DeyonSingh]

one of the best videos i seen!

[@alanbrownell669]

Very helpful! Keep them coming!

[@mamadousalioubalde7962]

very helful, thanks !!!

[@OttoCalderon]

Excelent video, very helpful. Just one question, don´t you have to configure the ISL protocol in order to have real redundancy among switches...?

[@tothepointfortinet3823]

Yes there's ways to get more redundancy but as for the ISL that's just the naming for a link between two FortiSwitches (unless using MCLAG in which case it's called ICL). Here's a couple examples of getting some better redundancy: docs.fortinet.com/document/fortiswitch/7.2.4/fortilink-guide/801204/single-fortigate-unit-managing-a-stack-of-several-fortiswitch-units - So there's a ring style between all the switches, theoretically if any one link in the topology is lost then the network should recover docs.fortinet.com/document/fortiswitch/7.2.4/fortilink-guide/780635/switch-redundancy-with-mclag - This one uses MCLAG and also improves redundancy. This gives additional scalability and performance advantages too I think this is a good topic to cover, I'll make a video on this (ie. has some more focus on redundancy/scale/performance considerations with ring topology and MCLAG topology)

[@OttoCalderon]

@@tothepointfortinet3823 Thanks for your answer and the links. Looking foward for those videos configurating and using ISL and ICL .

[@ReflectedRed]

Thanks!

[@jasonmorris4eva]

Is there anyway to get back the switch layout under the Manage FortiSwitch tab? In version 6.2.15 and earlier it displays pictorial diagram of the actual switches connected and shows you all the active/inactive ports etc. But in version 6.4 and upwards that display layout is no longer there. It's as if Fortinet went backwards with this aspect of the firmware upgrade.

[@danimoosakhan]

Can I create a LAG across multiple FortiSwitch aka MC-LAG for redundancy? For example, I want to connect my server to multiple FortiSwitch with LACP LAG for redundancy. If yes, how can I achieve that on the FortiSwitch side?

[@tothepointfortinet3823]

Check out this video which shows how to configure MCLAG: kzbin.info/www/bejne/haHJmYSuoLaspck After MCLAG is configured, then I assume your server can bond links with LACP? In which case, you go to WiFi & Switch Controller > FortiSwitch Ports > Trunk and Create New Trunk Group, select ports on both FortiSwitch MCLAG members

[@TheHexperience]

The second switch picked up a DHCP address from the default vlan. I need it to get an address from the fortilink subnet. How? Cheers!!

[@StarsGmail]

thank you for your effort, just review the video, and I would like to know how to config the trunk port will the same port that fortilink is using. As you mentioned that the trunk port (por24) is already setup, but I cannot see the trunk group from your video. I have tried to deploy the trunk port with same fortlink port but failed. would you please share the information how to work with it please? Thanks

[@bytes86]

Thanks!