: Download the correct deployment package for your hypervisor (VMware, KVM, Hyper-V, etc.) from the Fortinet VM Images section.
In today’s cloud-first and hybrid IT environments, hardware-based firewalls are no longer the sole solution. Network security must be agile, scalable, and virtualized. This is where FortiGate Virtual Machine (VM) comes into play. It delivers the same enterprise-grade security as physical FortiGate appliances but runs on hypervisors like VMware ESXi, Microsoft Hyper-V, KVM, or cloud platforms like AWS and Azure. fortigate vm license trial install
Obtain a trial license
We will break this into three phases: