[j-nsp] VMX integrated FPC

[Łukasz Bromirski]

Nikolas, Mark,

> On 23 Dec 2020, at 02:47, Nikolas Geyer <nik at neko.id.au> wrote:
> 
> vRR is basically just the VCP component of vMX without the vFP, which is why it’s limited to Linux bridged “management” interfaces.
> 
> There is nested vMX which runs the VCP as a nested virtual machine within the VFP,  not sure if it reduces requirements and iirc it only works on KVM.

VFP has very specific requirements w/r to cores and memory, it’s a superset of VCP. So no, the requirements will be actually bigger:
https://www.juniper.net/documentation/en_US/vmx/topics/reference/general/vmx-hw-sw-minimums.html

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