FortiGate Connector for Cisco ACI

Supported use scenarios

Physical Fortigate

Go-Through Mode for west-east traffic within data center in ACI.

Scenario: Web server and back-end database servers have same subnet in data center; customer needs firewall service between web server and back-end database servers.

Go-To Mode for north-south traffic for Web Server to access DataBase server in data center.

Scenario: Firewall service for Web Server to access DataBase server in data center.

Virtual Fortigate

Go-Through Mode for west-east traffic within data center in ACI.

Scenario: Web server and back-end database servers have same subnet in data center; customer needs firewall service between web server and back-end database servers.

Go-To Mode for north-south traffic for Web Server to access DataBase server in data center.

Scenario: Firewall service for Web Server to access DataBase server in data center.


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