Managing the VLANs is an area where the solution lacks and needs to improve. Fortinet FortiSwitch - Data Center is a complete product with everything. It would be good if the solution could be easier for its users to manage.
IT Network, Security Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Real User
2021-10-12T14:31:27Z
Oct 12, 2021
It would be great were FortiGate to allow for the management of many switches, such as 50 or 60 FortiSwitches. The managed display is very low. It takes a long time for the view to become visible, two or three minutes, perhaps. This is irritating. When there are many switches being used, the speed declines noticeably. When it comes to stability and use of the managed feature, FortiSwitch does not consume many resources, such as CPU and memory. Yet, occasionally, we cannot understand the managed feature of the FortiLink platform. Stability is not really the issue. Troubleshooting is. While the installation process is not complicated, the need to do regional configuration of FortiSwitch can be a bit on the tricky side. We have a singular project on the FortiSwitch and this solution does not have many features when it comes to modular installation. One can move from one port to another on the same switch. Since the FortiSwitches do not move, this resulted in a person being unable to move his personal configuration from the same switches. This is a very important feature which our customers require, as they need to have switching abilities, such as in the event that they will move to the conference room. FortiSwitches now offers this important feature.
Firewall Engineer at a marketing services firm with 1-10 employees
MSP
2021-08-12T11:04:17Z
Aug 12, 2021
The solution can improve by upgrading QSFP+, it is very limited and must be supported more than it is now. If we need FortiSwitches to support all the QSFP ports our budgets would have to be very large.
IT Network, Security Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Real User
2020-04-08T06:36:00Z
Apr 8, 2020
FortiSwitch should improve the FortiGate map. The diagram cannot move, automatically to show the switch. The map does not map the physical location. It cannot move the diagram.
National Information Systems Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Real User
2020-03-16T06:56:18Z
Mar 16, 2020
We need to understand a bit more about certifications and knowledge for understanding capabilities. The solution should make that more clear to its users.
The Solution is robust as it is currently but there is room to added more automated responses on the fortigate such that if vulnerability is picked by the forticlient it can auto-remediate example is that when Forticlient picks that a software on an endpoint is not patched you will have manually allow forticlient to patch it but in future if this can be automated for the fortigate or forticlient to automatically patch such vulnerability it will be of great help to keep the network secure all times.
What is an Ethernet switch? An Ethernet switch connects devices like computers, laptops, servers, and printers to a local area network (LAN) and to each other. The switch then functions as a central connecting station.
You can boost the Ethernet’s capacity by wiring switches to each other. Unlike routers, Ethernet switches use multiple ports to enable devices in the LAN. Unmanaged switches are a type of plug-in switch that will work when connected, without the need to configure them...
Fortinet FortiSwitch - Data Center needs to improve its UI and stability.
There could be more porting software options for easy deployment in the product.
The product must improve the latency in the management center. We experience latency when we make changes on a number of ports.
Managing the VLANs is an area where the solution lacks and needs to improve. Fortinet FortiSwitch - Data Center is a complete product with everything. It would be good if the solution could be easier for its users to manage.
The integration of wireless products could be improved.
It would be great were FortiGate to allow for the management of many switches, such as 50 or 60 FortiSwitches. The managed display is very low. It takes a long time for the view to become visible, two or three minutes, perhaps. This is irritating. When there are many switches being used, the speed declines noticeably. When it comes to stability and use of the managed feature, FortiSwitch does not consume many resources, such as CPU and memory. Yet, occasionally, we cannot understand the managed feature of the FortiLink platform. Stability is not really the issue. Troubleshooting is. While the installation process is not complicated, the need to do regional configuration of FortiSwitch can be a bit on the tricky side. We have a singular project on the FortiSwitch and this solution does not have many features when it comes to modular installation. One can move from one port to another on the same switch. Since the FortiSwitches do not move, this resulted in a person being unable to move his personal configuration from the same switches. This is a very important feature which our customers require, as they need to have switching abilities, such as in the event that they will move to the conference room. FortiSwitches now offers this important feature.
The solution can improve by upgrading QSFP+, it is very limited and must be supported more than it is now. If we need FortiSwitches to support all the QSFP ports our budgets would have to be very large.
FortiSwitch should improve the FortiGate map. The diagram cannot move, automatically to show the switch. The map does not map the physical location. It cannot move the diagram.
With IT products, there is always room for improvement.
We need to understand a bit more about certifications and knowledge for understanding capabilities. The solution should make that more clear to its users.
Before using FortiSwitch, you need several certifications. The price could be improved.
The Solution is robust as it is currently but there is room to added more automated responses on the fortigate such that if vulnerability is picked by the forticlient it can auto-remediate example is that when Forticlient picks that a software on an endpoint is not patched you will have manually allow forticlient to patch it but in future if this can be automated for the fortigate or forticlient to automatically patch such vulnerability it will be of great help to keep the network secure all times.