Features Supported in This Release
This release of vMX supports most of the features available on Juniper Networks MX Series routers with the following exception:
High availability features such as virtual Routing Engine redundancy are not supported in this release.
Licensing
Licenses are required for using vMX features. When you order licenses, this information is bound to a customer ID. If you did not order the licenses, contact your account team or Juniper Networks Customer Care for assistance. When you order a license, you receive instructions for generating license activation keys on the Juniper Networks License Management System.
The vMX licenses are based on application packages and processing capacity. Table 1 describes the features available with application packages.
Table 1: Application Packages for Licenses
Application Package | Features |
|---|---|
BASE | IP routing with 32,000 routes in the forwarding table Basic Layer 2 functionality, Layer 2 bridging and switching |
ADVANCE | Features in the BASE application package IP routing with routes up to platform scale in the forwarding table IP and MPLS switching for unicast and multicast applications Layer 2 features include Layer 2 VPN, VPLS, EVPN, and Layer 2 Circuit VXLAN |
PREMIUM | Features in the BASE and ADVANCE application packages Layer 3 VPN for IP and multicast |
An application package is associated with a bandwidth license. vMX provides full-duplex bandwidth in the following capacities: 100 Mbps, 250 Mbps, 500 Mbps, 1 Gbps, 5 Gbps, 10 Gbps, and 40 Gbps. Bandwidth licenses that are not associated with a specific application package apply to all application packages.
You can download the vMX software BASE application package with 1 Mbps bandwidth and evaluate it for 30 days without a license. To use additional features beyond the 30 days, you must order the appropriate license.
Minimum Hardware and Software Requirements
Table 2 lists the hardware requirements.
Table 2: Minimum Hardware Requirements
Description | Value |
|---|---|
Sample system configuration | For lab simulation and low performance (less than 100 Mbps) use cases, any x86 processor (Intel or AMD) with VT-d capability can be used. For all other use cases, Intel Ivy Bridge processors or later
are required. For single root I/O virtualization (SR-IOV) NIC type, use Intel 82599-based PCI-Express cards (10 Gbps) and Ivy Bridge processors. |
Number of cores | For lab simulation use case: For low-bandwidth applications: For high-bandwidth applications: |
Memory | For lab simulation use case or low-bandwidth applications: For high-bandwidth applications: Additional 2 GB recommended for host OS |
Storage | Local or NAS |
Other requirements | Intel VT-d capability |
Table 3 lists the software requirements.
Table 3: Minimum Software Requirements
Description | Value |
|---|---|
Operating system | Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (recommended host OS) Linux 3.13.0-32-generic |
Virtualization | QEMU-KVM 2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.11 or later |
Required packages Note: Other additional packages might be required to satisfy all dependencies. | bridge-utils qemu-kvm libvirt-bin python python-netifaces vnc4server libyaml-dev python-yaml numactl libparted0-dev libpciaccess-dev libnuma-dev libyajl-dev libxml2-dev libglib2.0-dev libnl-dev libnl-dev python-pip python-dev libxml2-dev libxslt-dev Note: libvirt 1.2.8 |
