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Instance type support

FortiGate supports the following instance types on Azure.

Supported instances on the Azure marketplace listing may change without notice and may vary between bring your own license (BYOL) and pay as you go. Instance types of the A- and D-series no longer appear as deployable instances at the time you install the FortiGate virtual machine (VM) on the marketplace launcher. FortiGate supports compute optimized instances (F-series, Fs-series, and Fsv2-series) and general purpose instances (DSv2-series and Dsv3-series).

For up-to-date information on each instance type, see the following links:

The following table provides information on compute-optimized instance types:

Instance type

vCPU

Max NIC

Recommended BYOL license

F-series
Standard_F2 2 2 FG-VM02 or FG-VM02v
Standard_F4 4 4 FG-VM04 or FG-VM04v
Standard_F8 8 8 FG-VM08 or FG-VM08v
Standard_F16 16 8 FG-VM16 or FG-VM16v
Fs-series
Standard_F2s 2 2 FG-VM02 or FG-VM02v
Standard_F4s 4 4 FG-VM04 or FG-VM04v
Standard_F8s 8 8 FG-VM08 or FG-VM08v
Standard_F16s 16 8 FG-VM16 or FG-VM16v
Fsv2-series
Standard_F2s_v2 2 2 FG-VM02 or FG-VM02v
Standard_F4s_v2 4 2 FG-VM04 or FG-VM04v
Standard_F8s_v2 8 4 FG-VM08 or FG-VM08v
Standard_F16s_v2 16 4 FG-VM16 or FG-VM16v
Standard_F32s_v2 32 8 FG-VM32 or FG-VM32v

The following table provides information on general purpose instance types:

Instance type

vCPU

Max NIC

Recommended BYOL license

DSv2-series
Standard_DS1_v2 1 2 FG-VM01 or FG-VM01v
Standard_DS2_v2 2 2 FG-VM02 or FG-VM02v
Standard_DS3_v2 4 4 FG-VM04 or FG-VM04v
Standard_DS4_v2 8 8 FG-VM08 or FG-VM08v
Standard_DS5_v2 16 8 FG-VM16 or FG-VM16v
Dsv3-series
Standard_D2s_v3 2 2 FG-VM02 or FG-VM02v
Standard_D4s_v3 4 2 FG-VM04 or FG-VM04v
Standard_D8s_v3 8 4 FG-VM08 or FG-VM08v
Standard_D16s_v3 16 8 FG-VM16 or FG-VM16v

Standard_D32s_v3

32

8

FG-VM32 or FG-VM32v

FortiOS supports hot-adding vCPU and RAM. However, Azure may not support this. See Resize a virtual machine using the Azure portal or PowerShell.

Instance type support

FortiGate supports the following instance types on Azure.

Supported instances on the Azure marketplace listing may change without notice and may vary between bring your own license (BYOL) and pay as you go. Instance types of the A- and D-series no longer appear as deployable instances at the time you install the FortiGate virtual machine (VM) on the marketplace launcher. FortiGate supports compute optimized instances (F-series, Fs-series, and Fsv2-series) and general purpose instances (DSv2-series and Dsv3-series).

For up-to-date information on each instance type, see the following links:

The following table provides information on compute-optimized instance types:

Instance type

vCPU

Max NIC

Recommended BYOL license

F-series
Standard_F2 2 2 FG-VM02 or FG-VM02v
Standard_F4 4 4 FG-VM04 or FG-VM04v
Standard_F8 8 8 FG-VM08 or FG-VM08v
Standard_F16 16 8 FG-VM16 or FG-VM16v
Fs-series
Standard_F2s 2 2 FG-VM02 or FG-VM02v
Standard_F4s 4 4 FG-VM04 or FG-VM04v
Standard_F8s 8 8 FG-VM08 or FG-VM08v
Standard_F16s 16 8 FG-VM16 or FG-VM16v
Fsv2-series
Standard_F2s_v2 2 2 FG-VM02 or FG-VM02v
Standard_F4s_v2 4 2 FG-VM04 or FG-VM04v
Standard_F8s_v2 8 4 FG-VM08 or FG-VM08v
Standard_F16s_v2 16 4 FG-VM16 or FG-VM16v
Standard_F32s_v2 32 8 FG-VM32 or FG-VM32v

The following table provides information on general purpose instance types:

Instance type

vCPU

Max NIC

Recommended BYOL license

DSv2-series
Standard_DS1_v2 1 2 FG-VM01 or FG-VM01v
Standard_DS2_v2 2 2 FG-VM02 or FG-VM02v
Standard_DS3_v2 4 4 FG-VM04 or FG-VM04v
Standard_DS4_v2 8 8 FG-VM08 or FG-VM08v
Standard_DS5_v2 16 8 FG-VM16 or FG-VM16v
Dsv3-series
Standard_D2s_v3 2 2 FG-VM02 or FG-VM02v
Standard_D4s_v3 4 2 FG-VM04 or FG-VM04v
Standard_D8s_v3 8 4 FG-VM08 or FG-VM08v
Standard_D16s_v3 16 8 FG-VM16 or FG-VM16v

Standard_D32s_v3

32

8

FG-VM32 or FG-VM32v

FortiOS supports hot-adding vCPU and RAM. However, Azure may not support this. See Resize a virtual machine using the Azure portal or PowerShell.