Create SR-IOV virtual interfacesĬomplete the following procedure to enable SR-IOV. Fortinet recommends i40e/i40evf drivers because they provide four TxRx queues for each VF and ixgbevf only provides two TxRx queues. As well, the host hardware CPUs must support second level address translation (SLAT).įor optimal SR-IOV support, install the most up to date ixgbevf or i40e/i40evf network drivers. FortiGate-VMs require network cards that are compatible with ixgbevf or i40evf drivers. To enable SR-IOV, your VMware ESXi platform must be running on hardware that is compatible with SR-IOV and with FortiGate-VMs. SR-IOV requires that the hardware and operating system on which your VMware ESXi host is running has BIOS, physical NIC, and network driver support for SR-IOV. VFs are actual PCIe hardware resources and only a limited number of VFs are available for each PF. Then, you create VFs that allow FortiGate-VMs to communicate through the PF to the physical network card. Setting up SR-IOV on VMware ESXi involves creating a PF for each physical network card in the hardware platform. SR-IOV implements an I/O memory management unit (IOMMU) to differentiate between different traffic streams and apply memory and interrupt translations between the physical functions (PF) and virtual functions (VF). FortiGate-VMs do not use VMware ESXi features that are incompatible with SR-IOV, so you can enable SR-IOV without negatively affecting your FortiGate-VM. SR-IOV reduces latency and improves CPU efficiency by allowing network traffic to pass directly between a FortiGate-VM and a network card, bypassing VMware ESXi host software and without using virtual switching.įortiGate-VMs benefit from SR-IOV because SR-IOV optimizes network performance and reduces latency and CPU usage. Enabling SR-IOV means that one PCIe network card or CPU can function for a FortiGate-VM as multiple separate physical devices.
Setting up FortiGate-VM HA for a VMware vMotion environmentĮnhancing FortiGate-VM Performance with DPDK and vNP offloadingĮnabling DPDK+vNP offloading using the FortiOS CLIįortiGate-VMs installed on VMware ESXi platforms support Single Root I/O virtualization (SR-IOV) to provide FortiGate-VMs with direct access to physical network cards.
SDN connector integration with VMware ESXi Validating the FortiGate-VM license with FortiManager FortiGate-VM virtual licenses and resourcesĭownloading the FortiGate-VM deployment package
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