Instance type support
FortiGate supports the following instance types on Azure.
Supported instances on the Azure marketplace listing may change without notice and may vary between bring your own license (BYOL) and pay as you go. Instance types of the A- and D-series no longer appear as deployable instances at the time you install the FortiGate virtual machine (VM) on the marketplace launcher. FortiGate supports compute optimized instances (F-series, Fs-series, and Fsv2-series) and general purpose instances (DSv2-series and Dsv3-series).
For up-to-date information on each instance type, see the following links:
- Sizes for virtual machines in Azure
- Compute optimized virtual machine sizes
- General purpose virtual machine sizes
The following table provides information on compute-optimized instance types:
|
Instance type |
vCPU |
Max NIC |
Recommended BYOL license |
|---|---|---|---|
| F-series | |||
| Standard_F2 | 2 | 2 | FG-VM02 or FG-VM02v |
| Standard_F4 | 4 | 4 | FG-VM04 or FG-VM04v |
| Standard_F8 | 8 | 8 | FG-VM08 or FG-VM08v |
| Standard_F16 | 16 | 8 | FG-VM16 or FG-VM16v |
| Fs-series | |||
| Standard_F2s | 2 | 2 | FG-VM02 or FG-VM02v |
| Standard_F4s | 4 | 4 | FG-VM04 or FG-VM04v |
| Standard_F8s | 8 | 8 | FG-VM08 or FG-VM08v |
| Standard_F16s | 16 | 8 | FG-VM16 or FG-VM16v |
| Fsv2-series | |||
| Standard_F2s_v2 | 2 | 2 | FG-VM02 or FG-VM02v |
| Standard_F4s_v2 | 4 | 2 | FG-VM04 or FG-VM04v |
| Standard_F8s_v2 | 8 | 4 | FG-VM08 or FG-VM08v |
| Standard_F16s_v2 | 16 | 4 | FG-VM16 or FG-VM16v |
| Standard_F32s_v2 | 32 | 8 | FG-VM32 or FG-VM32v |
The following table provides information on general purpose instance types:
|
Instance type |
vCPU |
Max NIC |
Recommended BYOL license |
|---|---|---|---|
| DSv2-series | |||
| Standard_DS1_v2 | 1 | 2 | FG-VM01 or FG-VM01v |
| Standard_DS2_v2 | 2 | 2 | FG-VM02 or FG-VM02v |
| Standard_DS3_v2 | 4 | 4 | FG-VM04 or FG-VM04v |
| Standard_DS4_v2 | 8 | 8 | FG-VM08 or FG-VM08v |
| Standard_DS5_v2 | 16 | 8 | FG-VM16 or FG-VM16v |
| Dsv3-series | |||
| Standard_D2s_v3 | 2 | 2 | FG-VM02 or FG-VM02v |
| Standard_D4s_v3 | 4 | 2 | FG-VM04 or FG-VM04v |
| Standard_D8s_v3 | 8 | 4 | FG-VM08 or FG-VM08v |
| Standard_D16s_v3 | 16 | 8 | FG-VM16 or FG-VM16v |
|
Standard_D32s_v3 |
32 |
8 |
FG-VM32 or FG-VM32v |
FortiOS supports hot-adding vCPU and RAM. However, Azure may not support this. See Resize a virtual machine using the Azure portal or PowerShell.