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Public/Private Cloud

Network Security

Documentation

  • FortiGate VMware ESXi Administration Guide
  • FortiGate VMware NSX-T Administration Guide

Solution and Architecture

Understand basic types of architectures and solutions for different deployments

  • Quick Start: Deploying a single FortiGate-VM on VMware ESXi
  • Setting up FortiGate-VM HA for a VMware vMotion environment
  • Optimizing FortiGate-VM performance
  • Enhancing FortiGate-VM Performance with DPDK and vNP offloading
  • Fabric connector integration with VMware ESXi/vCenter

Security Operations

SOC and NOC

Management and Analytics for your SOC and NOC

  • Quick Start: Deploying the FortiAnalyzer-VM on ESXi
  • Initial configurations of your FortiAnalyzer-VM
  • Quick Start: Deploying the FortiManager-VM on ESXi
  • Initial configurations of your FortiManager-VM
  • Security Fabric connector integration with ESXi

Advanced Threat Protection

Deploying Sandbox to further your protection

  • Quick Start: Deploying the FortiSandbox-VM on ESXi

Application Security

Application Security

Learn how these products help protect and scale your applications

  • Quick Start: Deploying the FortiADC-VM on VMware vSphere
  • Quick Start: Deploying FortiWeb-VM on VMware vSphere
  • Configuring vSphere HA for FortiWeb-VM
  • Deploying FortiWeb Manager-VM on ESXi

Quick Links

VMware ESXi Product Documentation

Access the latest Admin Guides available for VMware ESXi

VMware ESXi and NSX-T Certification Information

Access the FortiGate-VM certification information available for VMware ESXi and NSX-T