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FortiGate virtual appliance provides advanced firewall security and threat protection. Virtual appliance helps reduce the data center's footprint and increase IT agility for faster deployments in both on-premise data centers and off-premise cloud environments. Through network virtualization in a VMware software-defined data center environment, FortiGate virtual appliance can be centrally managed and orchestrated to add advanced security functionality. In a software-defined networking environment all traffic can be routed on-demand through FortiGate virtual and hardware appliances for advanced security inspection.