By default, when you install a Juniper vMX device the physical interfaces will all be named “ge-0/0/*” and the output from show interface ge-0/0/X will show the speed as 1G. If you are using SR-IOV with 10G/100G NIC’s this can be a bit confusing. According to the Juniper docs this […]
Read moreNOTE: I originally published this page in 2018; instructions may now be out of date. If you will be creating GRE tunnels on a Juniper vMX device you will first need to enable the tunnel services. If you do not do this you will not have any GRE interfaces available […]
Read moreNOTE: I originally published this page in 2018; instructions may now be out of date. If you will be using IPSEC on a Juniper vMX router you will need to enable the adaptive services interface. This is not enabled by default. Once enabled the adaptive services interface will be present […]
Read moreThe Juniper vMX router for KVM includes a shell script to install and manage the vMX virtual machines. Here are the common commands you can use with the vmx.sh script: To do the initial installation of the vMX (this only needs to be done once, if you run it again […]
Read moreNOTE: I originally published this page in 2018; instructions may now be out of date. These steps will help you install a Juniper vMX device on KVM. The steps assume you have already deployed a KVM host with all of the requirements that the vMX needs. If you did not […]
Read moreNOTE: This guide is being left in place for legacy reasons. I do not recommend deploying Ubuntu 14.04 for the vMX, instead I would suggest Ubuntu 16.04 with release 18.2 or 18.3 of the vMX. This setup guide will help you setup and prepare a host running Ubuntu 14.04 to […]
Read moreNOTE: I originally published this page in 2018; instructions may now be out of date. This setup guide will help you setup and prepare a host running CentOS to run the Juniper vMX product. This guide makes some assumptions about your environment: You want to use SR-IOV for better performance. […]
Read moreSometimes you need to execute commands on the secondary node. To do this you can open a session to the remote node from the primary using the command request routing-engine login node X where X is the node ID to login to. As an example: Transferring Files Files can also […]
Read moreThese are the steps I used to get the Juniper SRX user firewall feature working with Active Directory. The end result is I can apply firewall policies based on the username of a user or the group of a user. NOTE: JunOS 17.4R1 or above is required for this feature […]
Read moreThese are the steps I used to upgrade a Juniper vSRX cluster with minimal downtime. The Juniper vSRX cluster was running on ESXi, the upgrade was from 15.1X49-D120.3 to 17.4R1. The upgrade was done to get some new features for the user firewall (IPv6 support). The basic cluster upgrade process […]
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