Fortinet FortiGate-VM Stability
Stability-wise, I rate the solution an eight out of ten.
My company is involved in research and development activities, and some of our employees or teams are constantly involved in research or development, owing to which some product features are not implemented in our organization. In general, the product is not used to its 100 percent potential.
The stability of the product is good. Stability-wise, I rate the solution an eight out of ten.
Stability is one area where Fortinet stands out. We don't see dropped sessions or downtime. The hardware is extremely stable, and our utilization stays well below the limits.
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Fortinet FortiGate-VM
May 2024
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As my company uses an active-passive deployment in our environment, we did not face any stability-related issues with the product. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten.
I rate the solution’s stability a ten out of ten.
View full review »There are no stability issues. As long as we provide adequate resources, the solution works.
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Arunkumar Vaidynathan
Cloud Consultant at Tata Consultancy
The stability is good. I would rate it a nine out of ten.
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Peter Salerno
Owner / Principal Consultant at Stratus Concept LLC
The stability is rock solid. It's a very good solution. I haven't had to touch it for a year. The last thing I did was a firmware upgrade. That was a year ago, and they haven't requested any more work on that now. It's still operational and solid. There have been no complaints really on it.
Since it is a VM, the solution runs on a client-provided host machine. Most of the time, the host machine gives issues that affect the VM.
I rate the solution a five out of ten for stability.
When it comes to stability, various factors are involved, including partners, configurations, and third-party integrations.
However, we do use it, and it seems reliable and secure for most situations.
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Morad Abdelrahman
Network Engineer at MDS Arabia
Fortinet is a stable and user-friendly solution. The configuration is straightforward, and it provides a secure environment. I recall a challenge where a customer was using VDOM to segment their networks, but faced issues with communication between firewalls. Through online research, I discovered a tool to replace Fortinet, and it resolved the issue. During a critical migration for a large customer with six hardware firewalls, Fortinet proved reliable and prevented the possibility of mistakes. The GUI interface is well-organized, especially the security tab, making it easy to navigate. Fortinet simplifies network and security tasks, making it accessible for those with a basic understanding of networking and security concepts. Overall, as a vendor, Fortinet stands out for its streamlined approach, avoiding the need to navigate between multiple locations for configuration.
View full review »It is a very stable solution. Stability-wise, I rate the solution an eight out of ten.
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Luis Corpus
Senior Network Engineer at SONDA
The stability is good. There are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze.
View full review »It is rock solid.
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reviewer1331304
Deputy Director at a comms service provider with 11-50 employees
I am satisfied with its stability. I would rate it ten out of ten.
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Mohamed-Talbi
Network Architect at Bouygues telecom
The product is stable. However, there are a few areas of improvement. I rate the stability an eight out of ten.
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reviewer1905429
Independent Consultant at a educational organization with 201-500 employees
The solution is mostly stable. I'd rate it six out of ten. The updates and availability, however, are not so smooth.
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ThendoNdzimeni
Network Administrator Team Lead at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees
Fortinet FortiGate-VM is a stable and very reliable solution.
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reviewer1357092
General Manager at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
The solution is stable.
I rate the stability of Fortinet FortiGate-VM an eight out of ten.
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reviewer1625493
Chief Information Security Officer at a consultancy with 1-10 employees
Stability-wise, I rate the solution a seven out of ten.
There are certain issues that users may face when they update Fortinet FortiGate-VM due to some bugs.
The product is stable.
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Mohammed Alahdal
Cyber Security architect at Avanade
We have found the stability to be good. There aren't bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. It's reliable.
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Oleksandr Tarasynskyi
CIO at Viciunai & Ireland
Once in a while there are stability issues otherwise the solution is stable.
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Bilal-Khan
Ecommerce Project Manager at Equine World
I haven't personally experienced any bugs, and none of my clients have reported any either.
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Mohammed-Rafi
Manager, Infrastructure Support at Al Jaber Group
The stability of the solution is good. We haven't faced any issues at all while using the product.
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reviewer1125813
IT Support Team Leader at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
I think it is stable.
View full review »The stability is fine.
View full review »I rate the tool's stability a ten out of ten.
View full review »Hardware performance is a determining factor. A recent case made me notice that in comparison to the other vendors, Fortinet exhibited superior scalability. This was mainly due to their package-oriented approach, which involved scaling the VM version based on the number of customers. They offered various packages, and depending on the package, the VM version would be adjusted.I would rate it an eight out of ten.
View full review »The solution is primarily stable. Although, some time ago, there were performance drops where it was freezing as the logs were full. We managed to resolve the issue. I rate its stability eight out of ten.
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reviewer1619175
Principal & CTO at Constructure Technologies at a construction company with 11-50 employees
This is a very stable solution.
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Abdul Faheem
Global sales head at MEPCSA
The solution is very stable. It's reliable, for the most part.
It's stable, comparatively, to the fifth generation UDL appliances or other software that is available in the market. It's quite stable for the integration. It still requires more of a formal enhancement for speedy patches and speedy updates.
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reviewer1542387
Security Engineer at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten.
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reviewer1028589
Head of IT at a mining and metals company with 10,001+ employees
The stability has been good. Its performance is reliable. There are no bugs or glitches. it doesn't crash or freeze.
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Swapnil Talegaonkar
Technology consultant at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
The solution is extremely reliable. As mentioned, it is being used in 300 branches and no issues have arisen.
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Dhsrms Fff
Team Leader Network & Security at Rogers Capital
We do occasionally get bugs on the solution, and when that happens, we do need to go to technical support to get the issue resolved.
View full review »Fortinet FortiGate-VM is a good solution in terms of stability. I rate it a seven out of ten.
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Jürgen Bechmann
IT consultant at mLogix Systemhaus
I rate the product's stability a nine out of ten.
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OmerBaig
Solution Architect at Ambsan
I rate the stability of Fortinet FortiGate-VM an eight out of ten.
View full review »I think the product's stability is very good.
View full review »It is definitely stable. We have not had a lot of support calls so, so far it is good. We have been pushing our clients to see whether they need additional support.
We want to organize more training and have a lot more awareness-building seminars and workshops. That is something that I think we can or we would be wanting to look at moving ahead. We haven't been able to organize a lot of that yet, but that is something that I think can help in many aspects is awareness, to be able to draw in and attract local talent who would be able to help with support.
View full review »The solution is stable and reliable. There are no bugs or glitches when handling testing in the lab environment.
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KhalidMohamed
Programmer / Analyst at Maridive & Oil Services
I find this solution really stable.
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reviewer1641246
Senior Security Engineer at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Six or seven years ago, they had issues with code versions where they would make changes within the code version and they would have some bugs. That said, over the last six or so years, their releases have been very stable. We've had very few issues with any type of bugs or issues.
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GabrielDavid
Chief Information Officer at LCC Group Inc
We haven't had any issues when it comes to stability. It's been very good.
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SegunIyanda
Software Developer/ IT Analyst Individual Contributor at AIICO Capital Limited
We haven't faced any issues with stability since I've been with the company. I haven't witnessed any bugs or glitches. Our organization is satisfied with the level of stability it has provided.
I would rate the solution's stability a ten out of ten.
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reviewer1622106
Project manager at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
Its stability is very good.
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reviewer1504884
Systems Engineer at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
This solution is very stable.
View full review »I rate the platform's stability an eight out of ten.
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reviewer1718730
Works at a hospitality company with 10,001+ employees
I have found Fortinet FortiGate-VM to be stable.
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reviewer1054542
Consultant at a comms service provider with 11-50 employees
Stability is also high to very high.
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SaifKhan1
Network Security Engineer at a consumer goods company with 201-500 employees
The solution has been reliable in my experience.
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reviewer1392801
Solutions Architect at a computer software company with 5,001-10,000 employees
We are completely satisfied with the stability of this solution.
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Shaik Sayeed
Information Technology Solutions Manager at UBG
Stability is good enough. It's not that problematic for now.
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reviewer2339445
Cyber Security Engineer at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
I rate the solution’s stability a six out of ten.
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reviewer1537209
SecOps Lead at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
The solution is okay in terms of stability. We have not had issues. It's not too difficult to work with it.
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Ranjit Kumar Sriramoju
Tech Security & Networking Support Lead at a venture capital & private equity firm with 51-200 employees
Fortinet FortiGate-VM is a reliable product.
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Eric Xiao
Director at Treasure Technology
While the stability maybe isn't quite to the level of Cisco, it is a very cost-effective solution. It's cheap compared to Cisco. Licensing is very, very easy. It's much, much easier than Cisco where licensing is a pain. The Cisco licensing is very difficult to configure, which makes Fortigate a more attractive alternative even with less stability.
That said, after working with Fortigate for many years, I haven't really encountered a lot of crashes or glitches. The hardware is very, very good. Once a power adapter failed on us and we just replaced it on the device and it was able to recover. With ASA, I can say so far so good. The hardware's really good. They've improved a lot of the hardware specs.
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reviewer1270449
Manager-Information Technology at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
The solution is pretty stable.
View full review »In the first two releases of FortiOS 5.6, we had some trouble with the SSL VPN service. Sometimes it stopped working, and the IPS daemon too. Since 5.6.2, it has been running without any issues.
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Karina Llain
Head of systems and technology at Hotel Zuana Beach Resort
The stability is good.
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ArunM4
Creative Head/Director at WitBuz
The solution is stable.
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VINAY GUJARATHI
Owner at Mindware Computer Solutions
It's stable, and our customers aren't giving us much of a problem.
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reviewer1401510
Team leader technical support at a manufacturing company with 201-500 employees
It is stable.
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Richard Domikis
Chief Technology Officer at cornerstone defense
While I wouldn't describe the solution as unstable, there are definitely hiccups. I expect firewalls to be really efficient and very stable and I would say they're only sort of stable. I don't expect to have to figure out how to create a scan-to-email solution every time I upgrade my firewall, for instance.
Of course, they'll blame it on the vendor of the printer and say now how they're not following the standard or something, however, it was working with their product previously and the printer wasn't the item that changed. Their product gets a patch and it no longer works and you're like, "Well, I like your theory, but I don't exactly accept it." I don't think they have the features that a Palo Alto has, let's say.
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SheryarSaqib
Network Security Engineer at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees
FortiGate-VM is stable and I have not faced any problems with it.
View full review »The solution is looking stable as per knowledge
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reviewer1280259
Information Security Manager at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
FortiGate-VM is stable. They have been okay for everything that I have done with them.
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reviewer1602627
Network Security Engineer at a tech company with 201-500 employees
The solution is really stable and the connection with FortiGate is very good, as is the solution.
View full review »The stability of the solution is pretty good. We don't have any blocks and we don't have problems with the solution in terms of bugs or crashes. We have a monitor. We have an aux for many services. It really is problem-free.
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Lindsay Mieth
CISO at a religious institution with 501-1,000 employees
Fortinet FortiGate-VM is very stable.
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João Garcia
Solutions Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
It's almost perfect. It's very stable. We don't have many hardware issues.
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reviewer1394748
Information Technology Manager and ISMS Auditor at a consultancy with 51-200 employees
The solution is very stable. It's reliable and the performance is good. There are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze.
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reviewer1428657
IT Director at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees
Since we first implemented it about two years ago, we haven't experienced any major problems aside from the firmware that we needed to have upgraded.
View full review »No issues.
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Nour Ikrazah
Network Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
It is stable. In security, we handle shortouts and blackouts. Never in my time have we had a blackout, however, if you lose power, you do lose the whole firewall, which is bad.
View full review »This is a reliable solution and we haven't had any issues with the virtual appliance.
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reviewer1140930
Technical Lead at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees
The solution is highly stable.
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Aurelio Rodas
IT Specialist at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
It's very stable. I remember only one case in which we had issues with a routing protocol. This was the big problem that I had with FortiGate, as they had some issues and they reduced the equipment. However, in the last five years, it was the one lone situation that I opened a case for and they took a lot of time to get to the solution, which was an SBS and BGP routing protocol into the FortiGate. That said, that issue was on an appliance, not a VM solution.
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reviewer1277835
Cyber Security Engineer at a tech vendor with 1-10 employees
This solution is stable.
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reviewer997284
Network Engineer at a maritime company with 201-500 employees
We have had no issues with respect to stability, except that when new versions are released we do notice problems.
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Rupsan-Shrestha
Associate Pre Sales at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees
The solution is stable in terms of performance, but I have faced some issues with memory. The solution does not use the creation memory approach, that other vendors do, or what you would normally find in these kinds of devices. I think it is because the memory gets over-utilized a lot is why I am having the issue with the memory.
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Rehab Abdallah
Senior Network Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
I haven't seen any problems with stability.
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reviewer1377483
Lead Cybersecurity Analyst at a consultancy with 5,001-10,000 employees
We don't really need to worry about stability. Most of the time, what we were running into is just trying of get the client familiar enough with the solution, so that way they can deal with it going forward on their own. There's a little bit of training going on at the outset.
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reviewer1764255
Systems Engineer at a tech vendor with 5,001-10,000 employees
This solution isn't very stable with the new operating systems compared to the old ones.
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reviewer1055319
Chief of Security and Research at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
The solution is quite stable and reliable. There are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze.
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reviewer1738989
Network Analyst at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The stability is very good. There are no bugs. It's not glitchy. I can't recall it crashing or freezing. It offers pretty good performance.
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reviewer1651302
Director Of Technology at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
It's a stable product.
View full review »No issues.
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Edgar Cantu
Consultor Infraestructura, Networking y Seguridad en Seti Consulting at SETI CONSULTING
The solution has good stability.
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reviewer1397769
Founder & Managing Director at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
The stability is absolutely awful. Every time Fortinet releases a new version, there's always some bugs that you absolutely can't avoid, so stability from our perspective, in between maintaining the service on the FortiGate, is really tricky. It's difficult to trust the quality.
View full review »It is stable. We have not had a bad experience with the Fortinet firewall.
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Leandro Birri
Responsable de Ingenieria at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
Yes, we have experience stability issues, when the product sizing is wrong or on configuration errors.
View full review »It is a very stable product.
View full review »There are no stability issues.
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reviewer1238931
Junior Network Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
We've had some stability issues. The product could be more stable.
View full review »Yes, we encountered stability issues in IPSec Module. The tunnels freeze sometimes.
View full review »No issues. Operations have been flawless, so far.
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reviewer1752144
Cyber Security Analyst at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
Yeah. It is stable. I don't say it's not a stable product.
View full review »No issues.
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Fortinet FortiGate-VM
May 2024
Learn what your peers think about Fortinet FortiGate-VM. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: May 2024.
771,170 professionals have used our research since 2012.