FortiGate-5140B Chassis Guide
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FortiGate-5140B
FortiGate-5140B chassis
This chapter describes the FortiGate-5140B chassis and includes the following sections:
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FortiGate-5140B chassis back panel
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FortiGate-5140B shelf managers
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FortiGate-5140B shelf alarm module
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Cooling fans, cooling air flow, and minimum clearance
Chassis Overview
You can install up to 14 FortiGate-5000 series boards in the 14 slots of the
FortiGate-5140B ATCA chassis. The FortiGate-5140B is a 13U 19-inch rackmount ATCA
chassis that contains two redundant hot swappable DC power entry Modules (PEMs).
The PEMs connect to -48V DC power and supply 300 W to each chassis slot. The
FortiGate-5140B chassis also includes four hot swappable front pluggable cooling fan
trays that provide 300W of cooling power per slot and a front replaceable air filter with
redundant pressure sensor. If all 14 slots contain FortiGate-5001B boards, the
FortiGate-5140B chassis provides a total of 112 FortiGate 10-gigabit ethernet interfaces.
If all 14 slots contain FortiGate-5101C boards, the FortiGate-5140B chassis provides a
total of 56 FortiGate 10-gigabit ethernet interfaces. If all 14 slots contain FortiGate-5001C
boards, the FortiGate-5140B chassis provides a total of 28 FortiGate 10-gigabit ethernet
interfaces. If all 14 slots contain FortiGate-5001D boards, the FortiGate-5140B chassis
provides a total of 28 40-gigabit ethernet interfaces.
You can also install FortiSwitch-5003B boards in FortiGate-5140B chassis slots 1 and 2
to provide base backplane communications using the dual star 1-gigabit base backplane
interface. Base backplane communications can be used for HA heartbeat and other
control communications and for data communications. FortiSwitch-5003B boards also
provide fabric backplane communication using the FortiGate-5140B fabric backplane
channels. The fabric backplane is a dual-star 10-Gigabit switch fabric.
For both base and fabric backplane communications you can install a single
FortiSwitch-5003B board in slot 1 and add a second board to slot 2 for redundancy.
These boards provide backplane switching for data communication between FortiGate-
5000 series boards and for HA clustering.
The FortiGate-5140B chassis supports the following load balancing solutions:
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FortiController-5103B boards can be installed in slots 1 and 2 to provide
session-aware load balancing (SLBC) for FortiGate-5001B, 5101C, or 5001C boards
in the chassis.
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FortiSwitch-5003B boards can be installed in slots 1 and 2 to form a Enhanced Load
Balancing Cluster (ELBC) to load balance traffic to multiple FortiGate-5001B, 5101C
or 5001C boards installed in the chassis
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FortiSwitch-5203B boards can be installed in slots 1 and 2 to support content
clustering to load balance traffic to multiple FortiGate-5001B boards installed in the
chassis.
