Vendor Sheet
Automating Advanced Security for the Software Defined Data Center
Fortinet and VMware automate east-west protection in software-defined data centers by integrating FortiGate-VMX 2.0 with VMware NSX. NSX provisions security nodes across changing ESXi clusters, synchronizes policy, supports vMotion and DRS, intercepts traffic at the hypervisor, and redirects selected workloads for advanced inspection. Microsegmentation creates trust zones for web, application, and data tiers, while secured VXLAN segments preserve protection during workload mobility. VDOMs separate tenants and departments with administrative autonomy. Service Manager handles registration, licensing, configuration, dynamic objects, and FortiGuard updates; Security Nodes enforce runtime policy, and optional FortiAnalyzer centralizes logs. The solution speeds deployment, improves consistency a
