Fortinet FortiGate VM08
Consolidated Security for Virtual Environments

Overview:

Complete end-to-end security ecosystem for the Software Defined Data Center. Fortinet enables and facilitates the enterprise’s journey through the Data Center consolidation process.

Fortinet delivers both physical and virtualized security appliances to secure unique data planes. It offers on one side, unmatched performance and security capabilities while allowing for the growth and evolution of the consolidating Data Center with no service degradation or bottlenecks, no compromise on security, and with an unmatched ROI — fulfilling the outcomes of a robust softwaredefined security framework.

FortiGate Virtual Appliances allow you to mitigate blind spots by implementing critical security controls within your virtual infrastructure. They also allow you to rapidly provision security infrastructure whenever and wherever it is needed. FortiGate virtual appliances feature all of the security and networking services common to traditional hardware-based FortiGate appliances. With the addition of virtual appliances from Fortinet, you can deploy a mix of hardware and virtual appliances, operating together and managed from a common centralized management platform.

Fortigate Virtual Appliance Benefits

FortiGate virtual appliances offer protection from a broad array of threats, with support for all of the security and networking services offered by the FortiOS operating system. In addition, the appliances offer:

• Increased visibility within virtualized infrastructure
• Rapid deployment capability
• Ability to manage virtual appliances and physical appliances from a single pane of glass management platform
• Simple licensing with no per-user fees
• Support for multiple virtualization and Cloud platforms
• Full support for FortiHypervisor deployments enabling line-speed security in vCPE requirement
• Wide array of licensing choices to fit any infrastructure requirement
• VDOM-enabled models for multi-tenant environments

Platform:

Choice of Form Factor

Few organizations use 100% hardware or 100% virtual IT infrastructure today, creating a need for both hardware appliances and virtual appliances in your security strategy. Fortinet allows you to build the security solution that's right for your environment with hardware and virtual appliances to secure the core, the edge and increase visibility and control over communications within the virtualized infrastructure. FortiManager virtual or physical appliances allow you to easily manage and update your Fortinet security assets — hardware, virtual or both — from a single pane of glass.

Multi-Threat Security

Using the advanced FortiOS operating system, FortiGate appliances effectively neutralize a wide range of security threats facing your virtualized environment. Whether deployed at the edge as a front-line defense, or deep within the virtual infrastructure for inter-zone security, FortiGate appliances protect your infrastructure with some of the most effective security available today by enabling security features you need.

Deployments:

All Inter-VM traffic in Bravo Zones are subject to full UTM scan through L2 VDOM. Inter-Zone traffic subject to full Next Gen Firewall and UTM scan by L3 VDOM. Alpha Zone VMs can all talk to each other freely.

Security Fabric

The Security Fabric allows security to dynamically expand and adapt as more and more workloads and data are added. Security seamlessly follows and protects data, users, and applications as they move between IoT, devices, and cloud environments throughout the network.

FortiGates are the foundation of Security Fabric, expanding security via visibility and control by tightly integrating with other Fortinet security products and Fabric-Ready Partner solutions.

Software:

FortiOS

Control all the security and networking capabilities across the entire FortiGate platform with one intuitive operating system. Reduce operating expenses and save time with a truly consolidated next generation security platform.

• A truly consolidated platform with one OS for all security and networking services for all FortiGate platforms.
• Industry-leading protection: NSS Labs Recommended, VB100, AV Comparatives and ICSA validated security and performance.
• Control thousands of applications, block the latest exploits, and filter web traffic based on millions of real-time URL ratings.
• Detect, contain and block advanced attacks automatically in minutes with integrated advanced threat protection framework.
• Solve your networking needs with extensive routing, switching, WiFi, LAN and WAN capabilities.
• Activate all the ASIC-boosted capabilities you need on the fastest firewall platform available.

Specifications:

	FG-VM00	FG-VM01 / VM01V	FG-VM02 / VM02V	FG-VM04 / VM04V	FG-VM08 / VM08V	FG-VM16 / VM16V	FG-VM32 / VM32V	FG-VMUL / VMULV
Technical Specifications
vCPU Support (Minimum / Maximum)	1 / 1	1 / 1	1 / 2	1 / 4	1 / 8	1 / 16	1 / 32	1 / Unlimited
Network Interface Support (Minimum / Maximum)	1 / 10	1 / 10	1 / 10	1 / 10	1 / 10	1 / 10	1 / 10	1 / 10
Memory Support (Minimum / Maximum)	1 GB / 2 GB	1 GB / 2 GB	1 GB / 4 GB	1 GB / 6 GB	1 GB / 12 GB	1 GB / 24 GB	1 GB / 48 GB	1 GB / Unlimited
Storage Support (Minimum / Maximum)	32 GB / 2 TB	32 GB / 2 TB	32 GB / 2 TB	32 GB / 2 TB	32 GB / 2 TB	32 GB / 2 TB	32 GB / 2 TB	32 GB / 2 TB
Wireless Access Points Controlled (Tunnel / Global)	32 / 32	32 / 64	256 / 512	256 / 512	1,024 / 4,096	1,024 / 4,096	1,024 / 4,096	1,024 / 4,096
Virtual Domains (Default / Maximum)	2 / 2	10 / 10	10 / 25	10 / 50	10 / 500	10 / 500	10 / 500	10 / 500
Firewall Policies (VDOM / System)	5,000	20,000 / 40,000	50,000 / 100,000	50,000 / 100,000	50,000 / 100,000	50,000 / 100,000	50,000 / 100,000	50,000 / 100,000
Maximum Number of FortiTokens	1,000	1,000	1,000	5,000	5,000	5,000	5,000	5,000
Maximum Number of Registered Endpoints	200	2,000	2,000	8,000	20,000	20,000	20,000	20,000
Unlimited User License	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
System Performance
Firewall Throughput (UDP Packets, SR-IOV Enabled)	12 Gbps	12 Gbps	15 Gbps	28 Gbps	33 Gbps	36 Gbps	50 Gbps	-
Concurrent Sessions (TCP)	1.0 Million	1.0 Million	2.6 Million	4.3 Million	8.5 Million	18.0 Million	38.0 Million	-
New Sessions / Second (TCP)	85,000	85,000	100,000	125,000	150,000	175,000	200,000	-
IPsec VPN Throughput (AES256+SHA1, 512 Byte)	1.0 Gbps	1.0 Gbps	1.5 Gbps	3.0 Gbps	5.5 Gbps	6.5 Gbps	7 Gbps	-
Gateway-to-Gateway IPsec VPN Tunnels	2,000	2,000	2,000	2,000	40,000	40,000	40,000	-
Client-to-Gateway IPsec VPN Tunnels	6,000	6,000	12,000	20,000	40,000	50,000	64,000	-
SSL-VPN Throughput	800 Mbps	800 Mbps	830 Mbps	2 Gbps	4.5 Gbps	8.5 Gbps	8.6 Gbps	-
Concurrent SSL-VPN Users (Recommended Maximum)	1,000	1,000	2,000	4,500	10,000	25,000	40,000	-
IPS Throughput (HTTP / Enterprise Mix)1	3.5 Gbps / 1 Gbps	3.5 Gbps / 1 Gbps	5.5 Gbps / 1.5 Gbps	8.0 Gbps / 3.0 Gbps	15.5 Gbps / 6.0 Gbps	25.0 Gbps / 12.0 Gbps	29.0 Gbps / 19.0 Gbps	-
Application Control Throughput2	2.0 Gbps	2.0 Gbps	2.6 Gbps	4.5 Gbps	9.0 Gbps	17.0 Gbps	17.5 Gbps	-
NGFW Throughput3	850 Mbps	850 Mbps	1.5 Gbps	2.5 Gbps	4.5 Gbps	9.0 Gbps	16.5 Gbps	-
Threat Protection Throughput4	700 Mbps	700 Mbps	1.2 Gbps	2.0 Gbps	3.5 Gbps	7.0 Gbps	13.0 Gbps	-

1. IPS performance is measured using 1 Mbyte HTTP and Enterprise Traffic Mix.
2. Application Control performance is measured with 64 Kbytes HTTP traffic.
3. NGFW performance is measured with IPS and Application Control enabled, based on Enterprise Traffic Mix.
4. Threat Protection performance is measured with IPS and Application Control and Malware protection enabled, based on Enterprise Traffic Mix.

Services:

FortiGuard Security Services

FortiGuard Labs offers real-time intelligence on the threat landscape, delivering comprehensive security updates across the full range of Fortinet’s solutions. Comprised of security threat researchers, engineers, and forensic specialists, the team collaborates with the world’s leading threat monitoring organizations and other network and security vendors, as well as law enforcement agencies.

FortiCare Support Services

Our FortiCare customer support team provides global technical support for all Fortinet products. With support staff in the Americas, Europe, Middle East, and Asia, FortiCare offers services to meet the needs of enterprises of all sizes.

Documentation:

Download the Fortinet FortiGate Virtual Appliance Series Datasheet (.PDF)