Chapter 20 Virtual FortiGate Units for FortiOS 5.0
  
Chapter 20 Virtual FortiGate Units for FortiOS 5.0
This document describes how to deploy a FortiGate virtual appliance in several virtualization server environments. This includes how to configure the virtual hardware settings of the virtual appliance.
This document assumes:
you have already successfully installed the virtualization server on the physical machine,
you have installed appropriate VM management software on either the physical server or a computer to be used for VM management.
This document does not cover configuration and operation of the virtual appliance after it has been successfully installed and started. For these issues, see the FortiGate 5.0 Handbook.
This document includes the following sections:
FortiGate VM Overview
Deployment example: VMware
Deployment example: MS Hyper-V
Deployment example: KVM
Deployment example: OpenXen
Deployment example: Citrix XenServer
FortiGate-AWS Cloud-based Appliance