Machine type support

You can deploy FortiGate for Google Cloud as a VM instance. Supported machine types may change without notice. FortiGate supports standard, high-memory, and high-CPU machine types with minimum 1 vCPU and 3.75 GB of RAM and maximum 96 vCPUs and 624 GB of RAM in the predefined machine type lineup. You can also customize the vCPU and RAM size combination within this range. See Machine families resource and comparison guide.

FortiOS supports hot-adding vCPU and RAM. However, GCP may not support this. See Edit the machine type of a compute instance.

Having at least 4 GB of RAM for proper FortiGate-VM operation is recommended, especially if unified threat management is enabled.

The following table summarizes a subset of machine type support for x64 instances. For a full list of supported machine types, see the FortiGate Next-Generation Firewall (BYOL). FortiOS 7.6.1 and later versions support the C4 instance type family.

Instance category	Instance type	vCPU	FortiGate minimum order (BYOL) to consume all instance CPU
General purpose	n1-standard-1	1	FG-VM01 or FG-VM01v
	n1-standard-2	2	FG-VM02 or FG-VM02v
	n1-standard-4	4	FG-VM04 or FG-VM04v
	n1-standard-8	8	FG-VM08 or FG-VM08v
	n1-standard-16	16	FG-VM16 or FG-VM16v
	n1-standard-32	32	FG-VMUL or FG-VMULv
	n2d-standard-1	1	FG-VM01 or FG-VM01v
	n2d-standard-2	2	FG-VM02 or FG-VM02v
	n2d-standard-4	4	FG-VM04 or FG-VM04v
	n2d-standard-8	8	FG-VM08 or FG-VM08v
	n2d-standard-16	16	FG-VM16 or FG-VM16v
	n2d-standard-32	32	FG-VMUL or FG-VMULv
	n2d-standard-1	1	FG-VM01 or FG-VM01v
	n2d-standard-2	2	FG-VM02 or FG-VM02v
	n2d-standard-4	4	FG-VM04 or FG-VM04v
	n2d-standard-8	8	FG-VM08 or FG-VM08v
	n2d-standard-16	16	FG-VM16 or FG-VM16v
	n2d-standard-32	32	FG-VMUL or FG-VMULv
	c3-highcpu-4	4	FG-VM04 or FG-VM04v
	c3-highcpu-8	8	FG-VM08 or FG-VM08v
	c3-highcpu-22	22	FG-VMUL or FG-VMULv
	c3-highcpu-44	44	FG-VMUL or FG-VMULv
	C3d-highcpu-4	4	FG-VM04 or FG-VM04v
	C3d-highcpu-8	8	FG-VM08 or FG-VM08v
	C3d-highcpu-16	16	FG-VM16 or FG-VM16v
	C3d-highcpu-30	30	FG-VMUL or FG-VMULv
	C3d-standard-4	4	FG-VM04 or FG-VM04v
	C3d-standard-8	8	FG-VM08 or FG-VM08v
	C3d-standard-16	16	FG-VM16 or FG-VM16v
	C3d-standard-30	30	FG-VMUL or FG-VMULv
	c4-standard-2	2	FG-VM02 or FG-VM02v
	c4-standard-4	4	FG-VM04 or FG-VM04v
	c4-standard-8	8	FG-VM08 or FG-VM08v
	c4-standard-16	16	FG-VM16 or FG-VM16v
	c4-standard-32	32	FG-VMUL or FG-VMULv
	c4-highcpu-2	2	FG-VM02 or FG-VM02v
	c4-highcpu-4	4	FG-VM04 or FG-VM04v
	c4-highcpu-8	8	FG-VM08 or FG-VM08v
	c4-highcpu-16	16	FG-VM16 or FG-VM16v
	c4-highcpu-32	32	FG-VMUL or FG-VMULv
	c4a-standard-2	2	FG-VM02 or FG-VM02v
	c4a-standard-4	4	FG-VM04 or FG-VM04v
	c4a-standard-8	8	FG-VM08 or FG-VM08v
	c4a-standard-16	16	FG-VM16 or FG-VM16v
	c4a-standard-32	32	FG-VMUL or FG-VMULv
	c4a-highcpu-2	2	FG-VM02 or FG-VM02v
	c4a-highcpu-4	4	FG-VM04 or FG-VM04v
	c4a-highcpu-8	8	FG-VM08 or FG-VM08v
	c4a-highcpu-16	16	FG-VM16 or FG-VM16v
	c4a-highcpu-32	32	FG-VMUL or FG-VMULv

The following table summarizes a subset of machine type support for ARM instances. FortiOS supports T2A (ARM). GCP marketplace deployments currently do not support T2A. T2A requires a manual CLI deployment. See Deploying a FortiGate-VM on a T2A instance.

	Instance type	vCPU	Max NIC (enabled by GCP)	FortiGate minimum order (BYOL) to consume all instance CPU
General purpose	t2a-standard-1	1	2	FG-VM01 or FG-VM01v
	t2a-standard-2	2	4	FG-VM02 or FG-VM02v
	t2a-standard-4	4	4	FG-VM04 or FG-VM04v
	t2a-standard-8	8	8	FG-VM08 or FG-VM08v
	t2a-standard-16	16	8	FG-VM16 or FG-VM16v
	t2a-standard-32	32	8	FG-VMUL or FG-VMULv

For information about GCP machine types, see the following:

• Predefined Machine Types
• Machine Resources
• Use Multiple Interfaces