Deployment overview

Microsoft Azure supports virtual WAN (vWAN), and partners with third-party solution providers, such as Fortinet, to deploy network virtual appliances (NVAs) to a vWAN hub.

This document provides a brief overview of Microsoft Azure vWAN and how Fortinet FortiGate virtual machines can be used as NVAs in a vWAN hub. It also describes how to deploy Microsoft Azure vWAN and FortiGate NVAs.

About this guide

This guide provides the design and steps for deploying a specific architecture.

This guide presents one of possibly many ways to deploy the solution. It may also omit specific steps where readers must make design decisions to further configure their devices. It is recommended that readers also review supplementary material found in product administration guides, example guides, cookbooks, release notes, and other documents where appropriate.

This guide is part of the 4-D documentation series.

About the 4-D documentation series

Fortinet Next Generation Firewall documentation is categorized into four distinct documents: Define, Design, Deploy and Demo. Each document is designed for a specific purpose and builds on the other documents by providing you with a complete path from beginning to end.

The 4-D documentation series includes the following components:

• Define: Conceptual guide to introduce the reader to common Next Generation Firewall use cases
• Design: Reference Architecture guide that provides an overview of the components and architectures to satisfy common uses
• Deploy: Deployment Guides provide the step-by-step procedures for deploying the desired architecture
• Demo: Github repository of the configuration and examples provided by documents

The 4-D documentation series for Next Generation Firewall is available on the Fortinet Document Library at https://docs.fortinet.com/4d-resources/NGFW. Documents for the Define and Design components are not yet published.

For additional information and documentation about the topics covered in this document, see the Fortinet Document Library at https://docs.fortinet.com.

Intended audience

This guide is primarily created for a technical audience, including system architects and design engineers, who wants to deploy Microsoft Azure vWAN in greenfield scenarios.

For implementation, a working knowledge of FortiManager and FortiOS networking and policy configuration is ideal.