How to setup HA on FortiGate VM

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i have setup 2 VM's on ESXi with FortiGateVM100, and trying to setup HA cluster on it.

I connected 2 fortis interfaces to same port-groups (same vlans). Then i entered same ha group-name, same password, priority 128 on one, and priority 100 on second, rebooted them.

after reboot both of them appears as master and doesn't see each other in HA status.

if i run sniffer on any of them (diag sniffer packet none 6) – i see ha packets from both of boxes (i can distinguish it by mac-addresses). So it seems that VM's can talk to each other, but they don't do it.

Where to dig? how to setup HA on FortiGateVM??

Thanks!

[UPDATE]

Config screenshots:

1) virtual-machine 01:
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2) virtual-machine 02 (same stuff as 01):
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3) ha setup on both:
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4) ha result (fail):
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Best Answer

Solved. One have to switch promiscous mode security setting to accept on the port-group for heart-beat interfaces inside vswitch configuration.

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