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 …
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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 …
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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.
ESXi Installation
Let's …
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I'm excited to finally have the opportunity to play with Juniper's vMX! Since it was announced last year I've been eagerly waiting for release - a couple of client projects already have passed by where the vMX would have been a perfect fit. vMX already won an
award earlier this year at Interop Tokyo 2015!
In this …
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