Public and private SDN
You can use the Fabric > Connectors pane to create public and private SDN fabric connectors for the following products:
- Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI)
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Microsoft Azure
- VMware NSX
- Nuage Virtualized Services Platform
- Horizon (OpenStack)
- Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
- VMWare ESXi
- VMware vCentre
The fabric connectors in FortiManager define the type of connector and include information for FortiGate to communicate with and authenticate with the products. In some cases FortiGate units must communicate with products through the Fortinet SDN Connector, and in other cases FortiGate units communicate directly with the products.
FortiGate works with Fortinet SDN Connector to communicate with the following products:
- Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI)
- Nuage Virtualized Services Platform
For more information about Fortinet SDN Connector, see the Fortinet Document Library.
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You cannot import a policy package for Fortinet SDN Connector from FortiGate to FortiManager. |
FortiGate works without Fortinet SDN Connector to communicate directly with the following products:
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Microsoft Azure
- VMware NSX
- Horizon (OpenStack)
- Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
- VMWare ESXi
This section contains the following topics:
- Creating ACI fabric connectors
- Creating AWS fabric connectors
- Creating Microsoft Azure fabric connectors
- Creating VMware NSX fabric connectors
- Creating Nuage fabric connectors
- Creating Horizon connector
- Creating Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) connector
- Creating VMWare ESXi connector
- Creating VMware vCenter connectors
- Importing address names to fabric connectors
- Configuring dynamic firewall addresses for fabric connectors
- Configuring virtual wire pairs