Re: Juniper vMX Trial - fake news?

[Thomas Scott <mr.thomas.scott () gmail com>]

+1 for cRPD
- Thomas Scott | mr.thomas.scott () gmail com


On Mon, Mar 14, 2022 at 2:42 PM Tom Beecher <beecher () beecher cc> wrote:

> cRPD is a pretty nifty product as well. Some interesting little tricks you
> can do with that.
>
> (Although I don't think they free trial that, those licenses are quite
> reasonable as well. )
>
> On Mon, Mar 14, 2022 at 2:34 PM Matt Harris <matt () netfire net> wrote:
>
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> > On Mon, Mar 14, 2022 at 1:23 PM Daryl G. Jurbala <daryl () introspect net>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > The last time I worked with vMX was several years ago.  The image was
> > > outdated to the point of having to fire up an older version of VMWare to
> > > export the two VMs so I could import them back into 6.  The
> > > documentation barely existed.  I had to figure out which vmware adapters
> > > corresponded to which vMX adapters.  No one really seemed to be able to
> > > help at Juniper, even though we ended up licensing the things so we were
> > > "real" customers of this product.
> > >
> > > It looked a lot lot an abandoned project.  So unless something has
> > > changed in the last few years it's not looking good.
> >
> > Interesting. I haven't had an opportunity to try vMX because of its lack
> > of Hyper-V support, but we do run vSRX in production quite a bit including
> > junos versions from 17.x up to 21.x. It's kind of janky on Hyper-V but
> > works overall (the main issue being very very long boot times - 15+ minutes
> > to get up and running), but we also run it on KVM on Linux with the "vSRX3"
> > images, and that works a lot better. The vSRX3 images on KVM, I personally
> > haven't run into any issues with. The licensing costs are pretty
> > reasonable, too, imho.
> >
> > Good luck with what you're trying to accomplish: maybe give the vSRX
> > series a shot if you're running on KVM.
> >
> >  - mdh