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FortiGate VM01V
The single-vCPU FortiGate VM: 12 Gbps of firewall throughput, ten VDOMs and an unlimited user licence, for a small virtual edge or a lab.
1 vCPU12 Gbps firewall10 VDOMsUnlimited users
FortiGate Virtual Firewall
The FortiGate as a virtual machine — same FortiOS, same security services, licensed by vCPU count and deployable on every major hypervisor and public cloud.
Virtual machine
FortiGate VM02V
Two vCPUs, 15 Gbps of firewall throughput and up to 25 VDOMs — the first step up where one core has run out of headroom.
Up to 2 vCPU15 Gbps firewall25 VDOMsUnlimited users
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FortiGate VM04V
Four vCPUs and 28 Gbps of firewall throughput, with up to 50 VDOMs and 8,000 registered endpoints for a busy virtual segment.
Up to 4 vCPU28 Gbps firewall50 VDOMsUnlimited users
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FortiGate VM08V
Eight vCPUs, 33 Gbps of firewall throughput and up to 500 VDOMs — the point where multi-tenancy and 40,000 site-to-site tunnels arrive.
Up to 8 vCPU33 Gbps firewall500 VDOMsUnlimited users
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FortiGate VM16V
Sixteen vCPUs and 36 Gbps of firewall throughput, with 18 million concurrent sessions for a dense private-cloud core.
Up to 16 vCPU36 Gbps firewall500 VDOMsUnlimited users
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FortiGate VM32V
Thirty-two vCPUs and 50 Gbps of firewall throughput, 38 million concurrent sessions and 19 Gbps of IPS on an enterprise traffic mix.
Up to 32 vCPU50 Gbps firewall500 VDOMsUnlimited users
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FortiGate VMULV
The unlimited-vCPU licence: the FortiGate VM scales to whatever the host provides, with no core or memory ceiling in the licence itself.
Unlimited vCPUUnlimited RAM500 VDOMsUnlimited users
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