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name: vmwaresolutions-managingfortinetvm
title: Managing FortiGate Virtual Appliance
description: As of 17 July 2025, new automated installations of Red Hat® OpenShift® for VMware® are no longer available for new or existing deployments of VMware Cloud Foundation for Classic - Automated instances. You can still use or delete your existing Red Hat OpenShift for VMware automated installations until 16 July 2026. The service will no longer be available from 17 July 2026.
last-updated: 2025-10-24
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> ## Documentation Index
> The table of contents for this documentation set is at https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/vmwaresolutions?format=markdown
> The index for all IBM Cloud docs is at: https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/llms.txt
> Use these files to discover more information as needed.

# Managing FortiGate Virtual Appliance
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As of 17 July 2025, new automated installations of Red Hat® OpenShift® for VMware® are no longer available for new or existing deployments of VMware Cloud Foundation for Classic - Automated instances. You can still use or delete your existing Red Hat OpenShift for VMware automated installations until 16 July 2026. The service will no longer be available from 17 July 2026.
{: deprecated}

## Accessing the FortiGate console
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To manage the FortiGate® Virtual Appliance service, you must access the FortiGate console in one of the following ways:
* Log in to the FortiOS Web Client by using the credentials that you can find on the FortiGate Virtual Appliance service details page.
* Access the console through SSH connection by using the credentials that you can find on the FortiGate Virtual Appliance service details page.

For more information, see [Ordering services for VCF for Classic - Automated instances](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/vmwaresolutions?topic=vmwaresolutions-vc_addingservices&format=markdown).

## Considerations when you delete FortiGate Virtual Appliance
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Review the following considerations before you delete the service:

* Before you delete the FortiGate Virtual Appliance service, ensure that the configuration of the existing FortiGate Virtual Appliances is deleted correctly. Specifically, network traffic must be routed around FortiGate Virtual Appliances instead of through FortiGate Virtual Appliances. Otherwise, the existing data traffic within your environment might be impacted.
* If you installed the FortiGate Virtual Appliance service before VMware Solutions v4.0, and you then delete that service, you must manually remove the DNS entries. For more information, see [Manually removing the DNS entries](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/vmwaresolutions?topic=vmwaresolutions-vc_deletingservices&format=markdown#vc_deletingservices-DNS-entries).

## Related links
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* [FortiGate Virtual Appliance overview](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/vmwaresolutions?topic=vmwaresolutions-fortinetvm_considerations&format=markdown)
* [Getting help and support](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/vmwaresolutions?topic=vmwaresolutions-trbl_support&format=markdown)
* [FAQ for VCF for Classic](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/vmwaresolutions?topic=vmwaresolutions-faq-vmwaresolutions&format=markdown)
* [fortinet.com website](https://www.fortinet.com/){: external}
* [Fortinet document library](https://docs.fortinet.com/product/fortigate/7.4){: external}