[j-nsp] RE-S-X6-64G-BB

[Saku Ytti]

On 21 May 2016 at 23:15, Mark Tinka <mark.tinka at seacom.mu> wrote:
> I know this new RE supports virtualization, and changes the way we have
> been used to interacting with Junos from that perspective, however,
> since only one RE is active at any one time, you only have 64GB of RAM
> available to the overall system, and not 128GB (unless I've missed
> something).

All vendors are pimping this like it's something customers have been
crying for ages. But who actually is planning to use their routers are
general purpose compute?
What advantages can it have? It will obviously not affect the
reliability of the system positively, while virtualisation is quite
proven and safe, there's still occasionally issues where one VM can
impact another VM.

Considering what buying dell server cost, what is driving the
marketing? I'm not at all interested adding complexity and risks to my
networking infrastructure without solid justification, saving 500
bucks on dell server is anything but.

Perhaps if the VM would have interface to the fabric itself, and you'd
get documentation how to talk over fabric. So you'd have very high
speed interface to the router. That would justify its location and
might open some application. But I don't think anyone is doing that.

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