About FortiDeceptor VM on GCP

FortiDeceptorVM is a 64-bit virtual appliance version of FortiDeceptor. It is deployed in a virtual machine environment. Once the virtual appliance is deployed and set up, you can manage FortiDeceptor VM via its GUI in a web browser on your management computer.

This document provides information about deploying a FortiDeceptor VM in the Google Cloud Platform (GCP). This includes how to configure the virtual hardware settings of the virtual appliance. This guide presumes that the reader has a thorough understanding of virtualization servers.

This document does not cover configuration and operation of the virtual appliance after it has been successfully installedand started. For that information, see the FortiDeceptor Administration Guide in the Fortinet Document Library.