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Migrating from Palo Alto in Azure to Fortigate in Azure

  • August 3, 2026
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Greetings,

Looking for advice on best way to migrate from current Palo Alto in Azure to FortiGate.

Can it be deployed into the same subnets, or does it need to be in new subnets same vnet?

Thanks!

-Greg

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Jean-Philippe_P
Staff & Editor
Staff & Editor
August 7, 2026

Hello GregW, 

 

Thank you for using the Community Forum. I will seek to get you an answer or help. We will reply to this thread with an update as soon as possible. 

 

Regards,

Jean-Philippe - Fortinet Community Team
Stephen_G
Staff & Editor
Staff & Editor
August 11, 2026

Hi GregW,

We are still looking to get you an answer or help. We will reply as soon as we find relevant info.

Stephen_G - Fortinet Community Team
sjoshi
Staff
Staff
August 12, 2026

Yes, you can migrate a Palo Alto VM-Series to FortiGate-VM in Azure without creating a new VNet, but I would not recommend putting the FortiGate interfaces into the exact same subnets currently used by the Palo Alto unless the design specifically requires it.

The cleaner and safer migration design is:

Same VNet → new dedicated FortiGate subnets → gradually move Azure UDRs from Palo Alto to FortiGate.

Thanks, Salon
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