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FortiGate-6000 Release Notes

SDN connector support

SDN connector support

FortiGate-6000 and 7000 for FortiOS 6.2.4 supports the following SDN connectors:

  • Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI)
  • Amazon Web Services (AWS)
  • Microsoft Azure
  • VMware NSX
  • VMware ESXi
  • Kubernetes
  • Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)
  • OpenStack (Horizon)

These SDN connectors communicate with their public or private clouds through the mgmt-vdom VDOM and may require routing in this VDOM to support this communication. Also, in some scenarios, these SDN connectors may not be able to correctly retrieve dynamic firewall addresses.

SDN connector support

SDN connector support

FortiGate-6000 and 7000 for FortiOS 6.2.4 supports the following SDN connectors:

  • Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI)
  • Amazon Web Services (AWS)
  • Microsoft Azure
  • VMware NSX
  • VMware ESXi
  • Kubernetes
  • Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)
  • OpenStack (Horizon)

These SDN connectors communicate with their public or private clouds through the mgmt-vdom VDOM and may require routing in this VDOM to support this communication. Also, in some scenarios, these SDN connectors may not be able to correctly retrieve dynamic firewall addresses.