Machine type support
You can deploy FortiGate for Google Cloud as VM instances. Supported machine types may change without notice. Currently FortiGate supports standard machine types, high-memory machine types, 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 combination of vCPU and RAM sizes within this range. See here for more details on predefined machine types.
FortiOS supports hot-adding vCPU and RAM. However, GCP may not support this. See Changing the machine type of a VM instance.
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).
|
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 | 8 FG-VM16 or FG-VM16v | |
| n1-standard-32 | 32 | 8 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 |
The following table summarizes a subset of machine type support for ARM instances. FortiOS 7.2.4 and later versions support 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 category |
Instance type |
vCPU |
FortiGate minimum order (BYOL) to consume all instance CPU |
|---|---|---|---|
|
General purpose |
t2a-standard-1 | 1 | FG-VM01 or FG-VM01v |
| t2a-standard-2 | 2 | FG-VM02 or FG-VM02v | |
| t2a-standard-4 | 4 | FG-VM04 or FG-VM04v | |
| t2a-standard-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: