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• 27 April 2026 FortinetFortiManagerProxmoxLabVirtualisation

  Building a FortiManager Lab on Proxmox — Part 1: Lab Goals, Compute Sizing and Proxmox Host Preparation

  Part 1 of a five-part series on building a FortiManager lab on Proxmox. Covers lab goals, compute sizing for FMG and FGT VMs, host prerequisites, and a clean Proxmox 8.x baseline before the qcow2 build in Part 2.

• 27 April 2026 FortinetFortiManagerProxmoxLabqcow2KVM

  Building a FortiManager Lab on Proxmox — Part 2: Obtaining the Image, qcow2 Conversion and First Boot

  Part 2 of the FortiManager-on-Proxmox series. Walks through obtaining the KVM image from the Fortinet portal, validating the qcow2 files, building the VM shell with the right machine type and SCSI controller, importing both disks, and first-boot verification.

• 27 April 2026 FortinetFortiManagerProxmoxLabNetworkingLinux

  Building a FortiManager Lab on Proxmox — Part 3: Proxmox Networking, Linux Bridges, VLAN-Aware Bridges and SDN for the Lab

  Part 3 of the FortiManager-on-Proxmox series. Designs the four-segment lab network, compares Linux bridges, VLAN-aware bridges and Proxmox SDN, walks through the /etc/network/interfaces shape, and explains why the lab bridges should never have an IP on the host.

• 27 April 2026 FortinetFortiManagerFortiGateProxmoxLabFirewall

  Building a FortiManager Lab on Proxmox — Part 4: A Lab Edge FortiGate VM in Front of FortiManager

  Part 4 of the FortiManager-on-Proxmox series. Builds a FortiGate-VM as the lab edge in front of FortiManager, with four NICs mapped to the lab bridges, a scoped policy set, FortiGuard pinhole, local-in policy hardening, and the deny-with-log rule that proves the boundary works.

• 27 April 2026 FortinetFortiManagerFortiGateProxmoxLabADOM

  Building a FortiManager Lab on Proxmox — Part 5: Registering Managed FortiGates, ADOMs and Policy Package Installs

  Part 5 of the FortiManager-on-Proxmox series. Builds two managed FortiGate VMs, registers them via FGFM through the lab edge, splits them across two ADOMs, deploys a shared policy package with FMG, exercises revision history and rollback, and turns the lab into a snapshotted training platform.