On 21 May 2016 at 23:15, Mark Tinka <mark.ti...@seacom.mu> wrote: > I know this new RE supports virtualization, and changes the way we have > been used to interacting with Junos from that perspective, however, > since only one RE is active at any one time, you only have 64GB of RAM > available to the overall system, and not 128GB (unless I've missed > something).
All vendors are pimping this like it's something customers have been crying for ages. But who actually is planning to use their routers are general purpose compute? What advantages can it have? It will obviously not affect the reliability of the system positively, while virtualisation is quite proven and safe, there's still occasionally issues where one VM can impact another VM. Considering what buying dell server cost, what is driving the marketing? I'm not at all interested adding complexity and risks to my networking infrastructure without solid justification, saving 500 bucks on dell server is anything but. Perhaps if the VM would have interface to the fabric itself, and you'd get documentation how to talk over fabric. So you'd have very high speed interface to the router. That would justify its location and might open some application. But I don't think anyone is doing that. -- ++ytti _______________________________________________ juniper-nsp mailing list juniper-nsp@puck.nether.net https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp