[j-nsp] VMX integrated FPC

[Nikolas Geyer]

Hi Lukasz.

Went scavenging through documentation and the requirements are not bigger, they are actually less.

Memory required is the same (3GB) but nested only requires 3 vCPU to run everything, versus the 4 vCPU required for non-nested.

So negligible reduction, but it’s definitely not bigger requirements for a basic life mode instance.

Cheers,
Nik. 

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> On Dec 23, 2020, at 10:50 AM, Łukasz Bromirski <lukasz at bromirski.net> wrote:
> 
> 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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> Łukasz Bromirski
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