Yes, vMX licenses are based on both application packages and throughput/bandwidth capacity [1].
[1] http://www.juniper.net/techpubs/en_US/vmx14.1/topics/concept/vmx-licensing.html On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 6:04 AM, James Bensley <[email protected]> wrote: > > From: Josh Reynolds <[email protected]> > > Sent: Friday, September 9, 2016 7:41:13 PM > > To: Alex Valo > > Cc: Juniper List > > Subject: Re: [j-nsp] Juniper vMX > > > > > > Disclaimer: I have not used vMX. > > > > You might be better off going with something like VyOS/Vyatta. A quad > core high clock xeon with 8+ GB of RAM and a PCIE ASIC like a Chelsio T420 > (or better) would probably serve you well, and will have a very similar > syntax. > > ... > > What makes you say he'd be better off? > > > On 9 September 2016 at 18:48, Alex Valo <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thank you for your sharing your thought. > > > > > > We also consider a similar product, the Brocade vRouter 5600, which is > essentially Vyatta with Intel DPDK support and a lot of bug fixes, however, > we do like Juniper product, > > > vMX does use DPDK so I am quite curious to see how fast it will run, I > would expect line rate to be honest (I don't know if there are any > throughput licensing requirements like a Cisco CSR1000v). > > > Cheers, > James. > _______________________________________________ > juniper-nsp mailing list [email protected] > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp > _______________________________________________ juniper-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp
