FortiGate virtual appliances provide next-generation firewall security and threat protection equivalent to FortiGate hardware appliances. Virtual appliances help reduce the data center’s footprint and increase IT agility for faster deployments in both on-premise data centers and off-premise cloud environments.
Through network virtualization in a VMware software-defined data center environment, FortiGate virtual appliances can be centrally managed and orchestrated to add advanced security functionality.
In a software-defined networking environment, like Cisco’s Application Centric Infrastructure, all traffic can be routed on-demand through FortiGate virtual and hardware appliances for advanced security inspection.
FortiGate offers the industry’s broadest virtualization and cloud platform support including:
- VMware® ESXi Hypervisors and NSX Network Virtualization
- Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI)
- HP Helion Openstack
- OpenStack / KVM / Neutron Plugin
- Amazon Web Services (AWS) / Xen
- Microsoft Azure / Hyper-V
Highlights
- Software form factor delivers on-demand security agility
- Flexible licensing and packaging eases heterogeneous datacenter deployment and cloud migration
- Centralized management operationalizes consistent security policy updates
- Rich set of RESTful and JSON APIs seamlessly bridges the end- to- end ecosystem integration
FortiGate-VM
FortiGate-VM mitigates blind spots by implementing critical security controls.Its software form factor delivers on-demand agility required for cloud environments. Fortinet has the broadest virtual machine portfolio across leading hypervisors and cloud platforms. FortiGate-VM features all security / networking services common to traditional hardware-based FortiGate appliances, plus security intelligence from FortiOS.
Product Name | Firewall Throughput 1518 Bytes | Firewall Throughput 512 Bytes | Firewall Max Concurrent Session | Firewall New Sessions per second | IPS Throughput | IPSec Throughput 512 Byte Packet | Total Network Interfaces | Total Storage Capacity |
FortiGate-VM00 | 500 Mbps | 500 Mbps | 500 K | 10 K | 400 Mbps | 100 Mbps | 10 x virtual nics | (Up to) 2 TB |
FortiGate-VM08 | 4.0 Gbps* | 4.0 Gbps* | 8.0 M | 100 K | 1.0 Gbps | 200 Mbps | 10 x virtual nics | |
FortiGate-VM04 | 2.0 Gbps | 2.0 Gbps | 3.5 M | 75 K | 800 Mbps | 175 Mbps | 10 x virtual nics | |
FortiGate-VM02 | 1.6 Gbps | 1.6 Gbps | 2.5 M | 25 K | 600 Mbps | 150 Mbps | 10 x virtual nics | |
FortiGate-VM01 | 1.0 Gbps | 1.0 Gbps | 1.0 M | 20 K | 600 Mbps | 125 Mbps | 10 x virtual nics | (Up to) 2 TB |
FortiGate-VMX
FortiGate-VMX is a platform-centric security solution, with the latest VMware NSX API integration to provide complete visibility and network security inspection for East-West inter-VM traffic across security clusters. Within a dynamic network virtualization infrastructure, its management, control and data planes work in lockstep to deliver the best platform interoperability for VMware SDDC.
- FortiGate-VMX 2.0 Solution Brief
- FortiGate-VMX 2.0 Technical Whitepaper
- VMware NSX Compatibility Listing