Just a quick post on Interface ordering when using vmxnet3 on VMware. When you add more than 4 vmxnet3 data interfaces, on the addition of the 5th interface you may see that interface ordering is no longer sequential. This is not a vMX specific issue, it is due to the way the VMware balances PCI slot … Continue Reading ››
My Day One book on the vMX is now available - the book gives an introduction to vMX and then goes on to walk through a complete build of it on Ubuntu Linux (Junipers preferred distribution). So you can get familiar with vMX and Junos, you will get straight in to the Lab and build and scale … Continue Reading ››
As of Junos 15.1F4, Juniper are now officially supporting vMX on Vmware.
The installation process has quite a few steps to it, so following on my my vMX Getting Started Guide for KVM, here is a quick post showing you how to do it on your home lab running Vmware Hypervisor ESXi 6.0.
I've been working on a few projects recently that have in one way or another required the leaking of routes between different routing tables / routing instances. When I first started working with Junos I did find RIB groups a bit confusing, so here goes with a post about the feature.
In this post I'm going to show you … Continue Reading ››
Following my Juniper vMX getting started guide post, I thought it would be useful to show how vMX could be used to create a lab environment.
This post follows on immediately where the last one finished. I will create a multi-router topology on a vMX instance using Logical Systems, and then go on to … Continue Reading ››