Also look up the Juniper Day 1 on EVPN. I’ve the same issue about the network services mode. ================================================= In this post I showed how multiple vMX can be configured and interconnected on the same Linux host. Now they do have ova files so I am using it to deploy ovf template. Check if eth0 is already enslaved to br-ext……. I will copy vmx1’s config file and use that as the basis for the vMX2. VMX Identifier………………………………vmx1 If you have no intention of running vMX on an Ubuntu server, feel free to delete everything except the files I’ve highlighted. For both vMX1 and vMX2 this is done in the same configuration file – config/vmx-junosdev.conf. From what I read it is not possible to run it on a single VM with fpc emulated as in 14.1 ver. Compared to VPLS which uses data plane flooding to learn MAC addresses, this BGP based approach enables EVPN to limit the flooding of unknown unicast. Chassis control process: chassis collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 Any chance you could re-post the Q on http://forums.juniper.net/t5/vMX/bd-p/vMX When 2 VMXs are deployed. ifpfed_controller ifpfed_ds0 ifpfed_ds1e1 ifpfed_ds3e3 ifpfed_eia530 ifpfed_esp ifpfed_ethinterface ifpfed_eth.1 already present in the KLD ‘kernel’! Remember that ge-0/0/1 and ge0/0/2 have been connected back to back by the virtio bridge. Also, chose a console port number and management IP address that will not overlap with vMX1. Junos Device Type……………………………virtio If you do not do this you will not have any GRE interfaces available on the FPC. [OK] I have one NIC on my ESXi server that is cabled, and didn’t have plans to utilize the 2nd NIC really. root> show route Great It’s possible that VFP has crashed during boot, is it possible to setup the serial console? Have I missed something? Check GRUB…………………………………. Chassis control process: chassisd Also do you see any output on the vFPC console? Do you have any idea (load module problem) ? Hi – thanks for reading the post The orchestration script maps each virtual NIC to a vMX interface that you specify in the configuration file. Juniper vMX router is virtual router which needs two VMs to run. vMX2 is now ready to be built. virtio bindings are flexible and can be used to map multiple vMX instances to a physical host interface, or to connect vMX instances or vMX interfaces together which we will be doing here. As of Junos 15.1F4, Juniper are now officially supporting vMX on Vmware. ESXi Installation … Continue reading Juniper vMX – Getting Started Guide (VMware… sio1: port may not be enabled Ubuntu KVM Host Setup for Juniper vMX. When you comment the change you will see this ================================================== Local MAC addresses are being advertised from R2 to R3. In the top right corner click Add networking. Log file……………………………………/hom​e/alex/VMX/VMX/build/vmx1/logs/vmx_1468827152.log 1. installation is complete I boot both instances but the vcp does not reach login just stuck on loading ( did the tutorial step by step). Waiting for root device to be ready…. For vFPC I get Wind River Linux 6.0.0.13 localhost tty0 and after giving username password it gives me: What is the output from “show chassis fpc”? thanks for your effort and very informative blog. Select LSI Logic Parallel as the SCSI controller, When prompted to select the disk type, choose use an existing virtual disk, and then on the next screen browse to the correct datastore and select the jinstall64-vmx-15.1F4.15-domestic.vmdk image that you uploaded earlier, At the advanced options page, simply click next, Select to edit the virtual machine settings before completion and click continue, Now you need to add two more hard drives – click Add, and then Hard Disk, this time selecting vmxhdd.vmdk as the second drive. when i perform show interface terse i dont see the ge-* interfaces … Do you see the VFP active within Junos, and any ge-* interfaces? You can get a free license from Vmware at the ESXi download page. Hi – if you apply the license at https://www.juniper.net/us/en/dm/free-vmx-trial/ then then network services mode will automatically change , Your email address will not be published. At this point both vMX1 and vMX2 are running, but I need to create the virtio bindings to enable the communication between each MX. for OSPF to work properly. just allocate 8 or more then 8Gb RAM and boot again you will see the magic. In my environment DHCP is disabled and I need to bind IP manually. Thank you. Increase the size of the pool, or create a new pool. I will create a multi-router topology on a vMX instance using Logical Systems, and then go on to configure EVPN on this topology. ... I’ll be giving a bit of background on the vMX architecture and licensing, and then go on to walk through a lab based configuration of vMX. Neat stuff. I am trying to connect vcp with vfp and then connect to 2nd router. 64 bytes from 128.0.0.16: icmp_seq=4 ttl=64 time=0.457 ms Check Qemu Version…………………………..[Disabled] Does it have to be connected to anything? vfp-vmx1, For the guest OS, choose Other, Other (64-bit), When prompted to select the number of CPUs, for this build the minimum you can choose is three virtual sockets, and 1 cpu core per socket, to give a total of 3 CPU cores assigned to the VCP. setting ldconfig path: /usr/lib /opt/lib TX packets:40 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 Continuing without a reboot might result in unexpected system behavior. ================================================== Gabis. The factory configuration for vMX installations, as shipped, includes default credentials for the root account.