Upload and import the license to primary FortiGate, the primary FortiGate shall reboot and the secondary FortiGate will take over the master role (ref.
It would be recommended to perform the respective during the maintenance window.Ĥ) The process to upgrade the license on the FortiGate VM HA pair is as below: This article describes the steps required to upgrade FortiGate-VM HA pair VM licenses and increase VM resources such as CPU and RAM.ġ) FortiGate HA will need to comply with the following criteria:Ģ) When users would like to upgrade the license to support more resources, without following the proper steps, the user may hit into the split-brain scenario and the network will intermittently get disconnected.ģ) There will be an interruption to the user’s traffic during the upgrade process as FortiGate will restart.