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Deploying FortiGate-VM on regional Azure clouds

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Deploying FortiGate-VM on regional Azure clouds

In addition to "global" Azure support, FortiGate-VM supports "regional" Azure support, including China, Germany, and U.S. Gov. FortiGate-VM deployment on regional Azure clouds requires dedicated subscription accounts as global Azure and services do not cover them and they run under URL domains unique to the regional Azure cloud.

FortiGate-VM is unavailable on regional Azure cloud marketplaces. Instead, you can deploy FortiGate-VM (BYOL) by having a VHD file ready and instantiating a FortiGate-VM instance using your PowerShell or ARM deployment templates by pointing to the VHD file.

You can download the VHD file from Fortinet Customer Service & Support. Go to Download > VM Image, then select FortiGate as the Product and Azure for the Platform. The file name is FGT_VM64_AZURE-v6-buildXXXX-FORTINET.out.hyperv.zip, where XXXX is the build number.

Once the download is complete, unzip the file and locate the fortios.vhd file. Upload the fortios.vhd file to your blob/storage location as your deployment templates require.

Deploying FortiGate-VM on regional Azure clouds

In addition to "global" Azure support, FortiGate-VM supports "regional" Azure support, including China, Germany, and U.S. Gov. FortiGate-VM deployment on regional Azure clouds requires dedicated subscription accounts as global Azure and services do not cover them and they run under URL domains unique to the regional Azure cloud.

FortiGate-VM is unavailable on regional Azure cloud marketplaces. Instead, you can deploy FortiGate-VM (BYOL) by having a VHD file ready and instantiating a FortiGate-VM instance using your PowerShell or ARM deployment templates by pointing to the VHD file.

You can download the VHD file from Fortinet Customer Service & Support. Go to Download > VM Image, then select FortiGate as the Product and Azure for the Platform. The file name is FGT_VM64_AZURE-v6-buildXXXX-FORTINET.out.hyperv.zip, where XXXX is the build number.

Once the download is complete, unzip the file and locate the fortios.vhd file. Upload the fortios.vhd file to your blob/storage location as your deployment templates require.