Azure Site Recovery integration in HA

MartTwom · 04-04-2017

Which products are currently supported in Azure? FortiGate (version 5.2, BYOL) FortiWeb (version 5.7, BYOL) FortiMail (version 5.3, BYOL) FortiAnalyzer (version 5.4, BYOL) FortiManager (version 5.4, BYOL) Will there be an on-demand/pay as you go opti...

MartTwom · 04-03-2017

Public cloud networks (including Azure) do not allow virtual appliances to modify layer 2/3 MAC/IP tables. These are defined in software by the cloud environment. Thus traditional HA and first hop redundancy, which rely heavily on gratuitous ARP, wil...

MartTwom · 12-08-2016

Within Azure, there appear to be redundant options for various products. This is due to the fact that Azure has published the image as well as solution templates. In most cases, it is much more difficult, if not impossible to create a working solutio...

MartTwom · 09-28-2016

Caveat from product development: There is no accurate way to test performance in Cloud environments. There are no tools for such an undertaking, as such our BMRK team doesn't provide any official performance numbers for Azure. The closest you will fi...

MartTwom · 03-02-2016

See the attached pdf for screenshots. Step 1: Log in to Azure Preview Portal (https://portal.azure.com) Step 2: Click “New” Step 3: Select “MarketPlace” Step 4: Search for FortiGate Step 5: Click Create Step 6: Fill in Basics Step 7: Configure Networ...

MartTwom · 04-24-2018

Hi Blair,If you are referencing a local image, then you will need to verify the path is set correctly. The assumption being made is that there’s an “images” blob in the specified storage account which hosts the image chosen in the parameters definiti...

MartTwom · 01-17-2018

You can only use a single public load balancer with the FortiGates. However, you can add multiple frontends to that load balancer. Each Frontend will have a unique public IP. And, then, yes you would use D-NAT (in our configuration it’s called Virtua...

MartTwom · 12-12-2017

Hi Blair,Unfortunately, no. Azure doesn’t allow any hosted VM to participate in BGP, or any dynamic routing with the local vswitch. So, there’s nothing we can do to alleviate this problem.Regards,MartinFrom: "Blair Getz via Cloud Security:" Reply-To:...

MartTwom · 10-17-2017

Azure has a new load balancer in preview which functions much more like a traditional FHRP VIP. The big difference is that it can forward all protocols, rather than having to be configured on a per TCP/UDP port basis. Here's their documentation on it...

MartTwom · 09-11-2017

Hi Blair,This feature is primarily for replicating applications out of physical data centers. As such, I imagine FortiGate HA could be a part of the custom recovery plan. However, even if you replicated FortiGate virtual appliances from a physical da...

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