Fortinet Secure SD-WAN Foundations Lab

The Fortinet Secure SD-WAN Foundations Lab is a capability of the Advanced Technology Center (ATC), designed to provide an environment for hands-on experience with the fundamental features of the Fortinet Secure SD-WAN solution. The environment that supports this lab is completely virtual, removing any hardware dependencies associated with physical infrastructure. 

This environment is designed to be presented from the FortiManager web GUI, which serves as the single pane of glass for configuration, monitoring, and deployments. In addition to centralized management, users can also access and log into individual FortiGate devices directly. This dual perspective provides valuable experience in both day-to-day centralized operations and device-level troubleshooting.

This lab is closely related to the Fortinet NGFW Foundations Lab that can be reviewed for additional security features.

The purpose of this foundations lab is to help you develop proficiency in deploying, managing and monitoring the Fortinet SD-WAN solution. The lab guide is divided into standalone modules that can be completed independently.

The modules included in this lab are:

• Central Management and Logging
• SD-WAN Failover
• Packet Loss Correction with FEC (Forwarding Error Correction)
• New Branch Provisioning
• Templates and Variables
• Firmware Upgrade

Fortinet Software

• FortiOS 7.6.x

Fortinet Devices

• 1x FortiManager
• 1x FortiAnalyzer
• 6 x FortiGate

Infrastructure Devices

• 3x Catalyst 8000v
• 3x Windows 10 Desktop
• 2x Windows 2016 Server
• 2x Ubuntu server
• 1x TrafficJam