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KVM Administration Guide

Best practices

Best practices

This document serves as a best practices guide covering use cases where the Fortinet FortiGate virtual appliance is used in mobile networks. This document aims to provide technically focused details and guidance around building the FortiGate-VM with recommendations on tuning the deployment to maximize performance.

The document assumes prior knowledge of the following topics:

  • Computer hardware
  • Hypervisors and virtualization
  • SR-IOV
  • DPDK

Best practices

This document serves as a best practices guide covering use cases where the Fortinet FortiGate virtual appliance is used in mobile networks. This document aims to provide technically focused details and guidance around building the FortiGate-VM with recommendations on tuning the deployment to maximize performance.

The document assumes prior knowledge of the following topics:

  • Computer hardware
  • Hypervisors and virtualization
  • SR-IOV
  • DPDK