The following snippet summarizes the SD-WAN Single Datacenter architecture and deployment guide for Enterprises. To view the complete guide, go to Single Datacenter for Enterprise.
Single datacenter (active-passive gateway)
Traditionally referred to as hub and spoke, this design is the fundamental building block of our solution. The more advanced multi-datacenter and multi-region examples will essentially be extensions of the single datacenter design. In this design, the SD-WAN Gateway (or sometimes referred to as the hub) acts as a headend into the business application or private workload. SD-WAN gateways can be located in a single datacenter or central office, and typically provide connectivity for remote locations.
Deployment procedures
Following is a summary of the steps required to configure SD-WAN using FortiManager:
- Configure the overlay using the SD-WAN overlay template. See Creating an overlay template.
- Assign metadata values to branch devices. See Assigning meta data values to branch devices.
- Configure SD-WAN rules. See Configuring SD-WAN rules.
- Create normalized interfaces. See Creating normalized interfaces.
- Create policy packages and firewall policies for hub and branch devices. See Creating policy packages and firewall policies.
- Install policy packages to devices. See Installing policy packages.
- Verify the SD-WAN configuration. See Verifying the SD-WAN configuration .
For more information, go to Single Datacenter for Enterprise.
For sample configurations, go to the 4D-Demo/4D-SDWAN/Single Hub github repository.
