Virtual Appliance: Designed for deployment in virtualized environments (e.g., VMware ESXi, KVM, Hyper-V, Citrix XenServer, OpenStack, various public cloud platforms).
Maximum vCPUs: Supports up to 8 virtual CPUs.
Recommended RAM: 8 GB (minimum, configurable based on traffic and features enabled).
Recommended Storage: 60 GB (minimum).
Firewall Throughput (1518B UDP): Up to 10 Gbps (typical for 8 vCPU configuration).
IPS Throughput: Up to 2.5 Gbps (typical for 8 vCPU configuration).
NGFW Throughput: Up to 2.0 Gbps (typical for 8 vCPU configuration).
Threat Protection Throughput: Up to 1.2 Gbps (typical for 8 vCPU configuration).
Maximum Concurrent Sessions: Up to 4 million.
New Sessions/Second: Up to 40,000.
Included FortiGuard Services (5-Year Subscription):