With VMWare 6.7U1 now released I decided to upgrade a small cluster of servers to the new release. As I run VMWare vCenter (the appliance version) I also wanted to upgrade that. The first issue I can into is the appliance showed no updates available. From the “Update” tab on […]
Read moreRecently Juniper has released version 18.2R1 of the vSRX appliance. When I have tried to deploy the OVA file on an ESXi 6.7 host the deployment failed. The first indication of an issue is on step 5 of creating a new virtual machine, the deployment type shows as “undefined – […]
Read moreTo install the Juniper vSRX appliance on ESXi 6/6.5, the following things needed to be done. Initial Installation/VM Setup Deploy the OVA file as usual. Once the OVA has been deployed, edit the VM settings (right click the VM -> Edit Settings). Make sure you are using the Flash client […]
Read moreThere are a few common issues I have ran into when running the vSRX appliance. JunOS Console Doesn’t Show If the JunOS console does not show at all (all you see is a “Windriver Linux” screen on the console) usually the cause will be the VM’s CPU configuration. If the […]
Read moreIf you are running VMware ESX/vSphere with a Linux VM that is running out of disk space it is usually a trivial task. Assuming you have a simple partition layout like this: /dev/sda1 – 128M – /boot /dev/sda2 – 2G – swap /dev/sda3 – 25G – / If you want […]
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