Description
FortiGate VMUL-S Unlimited vCPU Virtual NGFW for Maximum Cloud Performance
The FortiGate VMUL-S is an annual subscription virtual NGFW with unlimited vCPU core support delivering the highest available FortiGate VM performance tier for organisations requiring unrestricted compute scaling across private hypervisors and major public cloud platforms.
License & vCPU
- Supports 1 to unlimited vCPU cores
- Annual subscription licensing model
- SKU: FC7-10-FGVVS-<Support Bundle>-02-DD
- No RAM restrictions
- Unlimited user license included
- Managed by FortiManager 6.4.0+ and 7.x+
Capacity
- 200,000 firewall policies
- Up to 500 virtual domains (VDOMs requires separate VDOM subscription license; each seat = 5 VDOMs, max 100 seats / 500 VDOMs)
- Up to 4,096 wireless access points (1,024 tunnel mode)
- Up to 300 FortiSwitches
- Up to 20,000 registered endpoints
- Storage: 32GB minimum / 2TB maximum
- Up to 24 network interfaces (FortiOS 6.4.0+)
Private Cloud / Hypervisor Support
- VMware ESXi v6.7 / v7.0 / v8.0
- VMware NSX-T v3.2 / v4.0
- Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 through 2019
- Microsoft AzureStack
- Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization 4.17.13 (FortiOS 7.6.0+)
- Citrix XenServer v5.6 SP2 and later
- Open source Xen v3.4.3 and later
- KVM (RHEL/CentOS, Ubuntu, SuSE)
- Nutanix AHV 7.3 (FortiOS 7.6.3+)
- CSP 5000 Series
Public Cloud / Marketplace Support
- Amazon AWS (including GovCloud and AWS China)
- VMware Cloud on AWS
- Microsoft Azure (including US Gov, Germany, China) and AzureStack
- Google GCP
- Oracle OCI
- Alibaba Cloud
- IBM Cloud (Gen1/Gen2)
Performance Acceleration
- vSPU technology offloads packet processing to user space with kernel bypass delivers 3x+ UDP firewall throughput
- Intel QuickAssist Technology (QAT) support for IPsec VPN 23x throughput improvement
- First NGFW vendor to support AWS C5n instances for compute-heavy cloud applications
Security Features
- FortiGuard AI-powered IPS with virtual patching
- Anti-malware: AV, sandboxing, AI-based heuristics, Content Disarm and Reconstruct
- Web/DNS/video filtering across 300M+ URL database
- AI-based inline malware prevention sub-second zero-day blocking
- Data Loss Prevention (DLP) and inline CASB
- OT security: detection, vulnerability correlation, virtual patching, protocol decoders
- Real-time SSL/TLS 1.3 deep inspection
- Universal ZTNA agent-based or agentless
- Full SD-WAN built into FortiOS
Cloud Integration & Automation
- Terraform modules, AWS CloudFormation, Ansible playbooks, REST API
- Native integrations with cloud-native tools, serverless functions, and auto-scaling
- Log forwarding and event correlation into cloud SIEM and SOAR platforms
- Cloud identity, tagging, and networking service integration for unified policy enforcement
Management
- Centralised management via FortiManager or FortiManager Cloud
- FortiAnalyzer Cloud available
- FortiConverter Service for legacy firewall migration
- Cloud marketplace deployments include UTP bundle by default
View data sheet: FortiGate Virtual Appliances Data Sheet