<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=iso-8859-1"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 15px;">Couple of things I will also mention:</span></font><div><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 15px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 15px;">- vRouter boots up a *LOT* faster than vMX/vSRX</span></font></div><div><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 15px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>....So the time from spin-up to forwarding packets is the quickest I've seen vs other VNFs (i.e. CSR vASR1000, vMX etc.)</span></font></div><div><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 15px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 15px;">- vMX doesn't do a lot of the MPC/DPC "service blade" (MS-MPC) functionality </span></font></div><div><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 15px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>basically non-feature parity w/vRouter w/things like IPSEC, EoGRE, NAT etc. You'd have to use vSRX for those; and the caveats/lack of features it brings. (i.e. no EoGRE, stateful flows, etc.)</span></font></div><div><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 15px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 15px;">- I've always had issues with vlan and pop/swap operations on vMX</span></font></div><div><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 15px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> (which actually i think is more of a vSwitch problem than anything when under ESXi). </span></font></div><div><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 15px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>KVM seems Ok tho.</span></font></div><div><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 15px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 15px;">- VxLAN is broken still under 15.1F5 under vMX. </span></font></div><div><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 15px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>The IP addressing is little-endian when it hits there wire.</span></font></div><div><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 15px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> i.e. IP address 1.0.0.2 of a VTEP goes "out on the wire" as source IP "2.0.0.1". </span></font></div><div><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 15px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Fun eh? Took me days to find that one ( a PCAP revealed all.)</span></font></div><div><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 15px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 15px;">I do Like vMX a lot (what I'm used to), but the more I play with vRouter, the more I'm impressed by it.</span></font></div><div><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 15px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 15px;">- CK.</span></font></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div><div>On 10 Sep 2016, at 3:32 am, Alex Valo <<a href="mailto:alex.valo@outlook.com">alex.valo@outlook.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">Anybody keen to share their experience on either or both of these platforms?</div><div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">Anything to be specifically aware of?</div><div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">Which hardware do you use?</div><div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">What are you traffic level?</div><div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">Did it work? Is it bullet-proof?</div><div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><br></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">We are currently considering both Brocade vRouter and Juniper vMX.</div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>