Issue Capturing VM fortigate as an image

Question

Hello i am trying to Capture an vm of fortigate as an image and it doesnt work
does azure support capturing nva machines as an image?
if no is there another way to save nva as an image ?

Answer 1

Hi,

Is it a managed VM or general VM? Check the steps here capture-image-resource

I am assuming it is Linux or Unix OS underneath the FG so try this - download-vhd

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Answer 2

Hi,

Thank you for posting the question to the Q&A forum.

Yes it's possible can you please check this to capture the VM from the Portal

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/capture-image-portal

or maybe before that, you can just check this video tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukqbeiejLYE

I hope the above information can help you.

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Answer 3

Hello i tried this before the machine captures the image successfully
but when i try to create an vm from an image that was saved
it doesnt work there is no connectivity and no network i tried to reach fortigate and they said that they dont know if it works
and i should asking azure for instructions

when i try to create vm using the image i get timeout because the agent is not responding
and its says that the machine is not generalised and it fails on timeout

i checked azure database and you cant generalise this vm because its a custom OS - Fortios
i does not allow to run linux commands as you want
you can only use Fortios hard coded commands

Answer 4

thank you for your help i managed to create vm using a snapshot created manually

Answer 5

@Slava Shishkin well if it was helpfull :)

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