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    • VMware ESXi Administration Guide

    Home FortiGate Private Cloud 7.0.0 VMware ESXi Administration Guide
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    FortiGate-VM

    FortiGate-VM

    • Supported on private and public clouds across many vendors
    • Delivered in hypervisor-specific formats
    • Licensed based on number of vCPUs (no restriction on RAM)
    • Compatible with different network virtualization technologies, including:
      • virtIO / VMXNET3
      • PCI passthrough
      • SR-IOV
      • OVS-DPDK
    • Supports common NICs, including the following for SR-IOV:
      • Intel cards compatible with igb, ixgbe and i40e drivers (1/10/25/40 Gbps)
      • Intel cards compatible with ice driver (100 Gbps) (FortiOS 6.4.1 and later versions)
      • Mellanox 100G cards (mlx_4 and mlx_5)
      • Broadcom 100G cards (P2100G) (FortiOS 6.4.3 and later versions)
    • Internal implementation of DPDK to deliver the vSPU, giving massive performance benefits with no dependency on hypervisor
    Note

    The FortiGate-VM product evolves quickly to support new hardware from third parties. Fortinet is continuously enhancing the product. Therefore, installing the latest GA release from one of the two latest FortiOS is recommended.
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    FortiGate-VM

    FortiGate-VM

    • Supported on private and public clouds across many vendors
    • Delivered in hypervisor-specific formats
    • Licensed based on number of vCPUs (no restriction on RAM)
    • Compatible with different network virtualization technologies, including:
      • virtIO / VMXNET3
      • PCI passthrough
      • SR-IOV
      • OVS-DPDK
    • Supports common NICs, including the following for SR-IOV:
      • Intel cards compatible with igb, ixgbe and i40e drivers (1/10/25/40 Gbps)
      • Intel cards compatible with ice driver (100 Gbps) (FortiOS 6.4.1 and later versions)
      • Mellanox 100G cards (mlx_4 and mlx_5)
      • Broadcom 100G cards (P2100G) (FortiOS 6.4.3 and later versions)
    • Internal implementation of DPDK to deliver the vSPU, giving massive performance benefits with no dependency on hypervisor
    Note

    The FortiGate-VM product evolves quickly to support new hardware from third parties. Fortinet is continuously enhancing the product. Therefore, installing the latest GA release from one of the two latest FortiOS is recommended.
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