What are the logical elements that make up FortiGate SD-WAN?
A quick break-down of FortiGate SD-WAN components.
Short and sweet: here's a quick breakdown of the logical elements that comprise Fortinet SD-WAN.
- Members - These are the physical (or virtual) interfaces on the Fortigate firewall that traffic can traverse.
- Zones - These are groups of members. Initially you might be wondering how/why these are there but it's helpful for optimizing the configuration and scaling certain implementations.
- Performance SLAs - These are basically techniques (metrics) for measuring the health of a member (interface). At any given time a FortiGate may have multiple paths for directing traffic. It's critical for it to know which paths are available and what their respective performance is.
- SD-WAN Rules - These rules essentially define where to steer traffic based on different criteria (e.g. source, destination, application, performance, etc).
That's it! Nice and simple. For more information on the topic, check out the following articles and resources:
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