FortiGate-VM

Now the hypervisor is configured and the VM is running. Consideration for the FGVM setup is needed. These considerations could impact the decisions made on the hypervisor, so some updates may be required.

Depending on the FortiGate-VM use case, you should consider one or more of the following:

• SR-IOV will typically be used for any performant deployment. This does have a drawback on the VM mobility.
• vSPU gives significant performance uplift in many scenarios and will continue to develop.
• Not using vSPU or not using all CPUs for vSPU may be more performant in some scenarios.
• Without vSPU, balancing interrupts across all CPUs by using affinity settings is key to getting maximum performance.