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FortiGate-5144C Chassis
You can install up to 14 FortiGate-5000 series boards in the 14 slots of the FortiGate-5144C ATCA chassis. The
FortiGate-5144C is a 14U 19-inch rackmount ATCA chassis that contains four redundant hot swappable DC power entry
Modules (PEMs). The PEMs connect to -48V DC power and supply 400 W to each chassis front slot. The FortiGate-
5144C chassis also includes four hot swappable cooling fan trays that provide 450W of cooling power per slot and a
front replaceable air filter with redundant pressure sensors. If all 14 slots contain FortiGate-5001D boards, the
FortiGate-5144C chassis provides a total of 28 FortiGate 40Gbps Ethernet interfaces and 28 FortiGate 10Gbps
interfaces.
Using the dual star 40Gbps fabric and 1Gbps base backplane interfaces the FortiGate-5144C chassis can support a
wide range of different configurations. For example:
Up to 14 FortiGate-5001D boards in chassis slots 1 to 14, each board operating as a separate FortiGate firewall.
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One or two FortiController-5913C boards in chassis slots 1 and 2 in a dual-star configuration to support a 100 Gbps
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session-aware load balancing cluster (SLBC) that distributes traffic to up to 12 FortiGate-5001D boards (called
workers) installed in chassis slots 3 to 14.
One or two FortiController-5903C boards to support a 40 Gbps SLBC with up to 12 FortiGate-5001D workers.
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One or two FortiController-5913C or FortiController-5903C boards in chassis slots 1 and 2 can also be used for
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FortiGate-5144C fabric and base backplane switching and to support FGCP clustering.
Two FortiController-5103B boards can be installed in slots 1 and 2 to create an SLBC for FortiGate-5001D (or older)
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workers. FortiController-5103B boards can also be used for fabric and base backplane switching and to support
FGCP clustering.
Two FortiController-5902D boards can be installed in slots 1 and 2 to support content clustering to load balance
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traffic to multiple FortiGate-5001D workers.
The FortiGate-5144C chassis requires -48V DC power. If DC power is not available you can install a FortiGate-5053B
power supply shelf and PSU-5000B power supplies (purchased separately).
FortiGate-5144C front panel
The following illustration shows the front of a FortiGate-5144C chassis containing two FortiController-5903C boards are
installed in slots 1 and 2 and 12 FortiGate-5001D boards installed in slots 3 to 14.
These components are also visible on the front of the FortiGate-5144C chassis:
The primary and secondary Shelf Managers. Fortinet ships theFortiGate-5144C chassis with the primary shelf
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manager installed. You can purchase and install a secondary shelf manager for redundancy. The shelf manager
provides power allocation, cooling, alarms, shelf status, displays alarms and includes a telco alarm interface.
The location of the front-replaceable air filter frame and retention screws.
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The location of hot swappable fan trays 1 and 2 (can be accessed by opening the top cover at the front of the
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chassis).
The Electrostatic discharge (ESD) socket, used for connecting an ESD wrist band when working with the chassis.
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FortiGate-5144C 6.2.3 Chassis Guide
Fortinet Technologies Inc.
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