But I guess in a situation where you already have a data center or virtual environment like what is being talked about, and you simply add in vMX for vRR or vCGNat, then perhaps that makes it more bearable
Btw, can you actually emulate the MS-MIC-16G/MS-MPC-128G hardware cgnat functions on vMX ?! - Aaron -----Original Message----- From: juniper-nsp [mailto:juniper-nsp-boun...@puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Mark Tinka Sent: Saturday, April 21, 2018 6:36 AM To: Saku Ytti; Mike Cc: juniper-nsp@puck.nether.net Subject: Re: [j-nsp] Cost of vMX On 21/Apr/18 02:19, Saku Ytti wrote: > >From BOM POV if you have to pay for the XEONs it probably isn't very > good value proposal per Mpps. However if you have poor pricing for MX, > good pricing on your XEON and modest pps need, maybe it makes sense. This... Looking at virtual routers - even from other vendors - what quickly stands out for me is that if your traffic volumes are typically low, but you get value in things such as being able to host a ton of customers on the same chassis/VM, hold millions of routes for several years without worrying about hardware resources (in the case of RR's), need to crunch numbers very quickly in CPU (in the case of a virtualized Netflow collector such as Arbor), then it makes very good sense. If you're trying to forward 10's of Gbps through a virtual router on general-purpose x86 hardware at any meaningful scale, you're quickly going to see all your money go into: - The server hardware - The hypervisor license - The VM license Doesn't make for a good prospect, if I'm honest, with today's state-of-the-art. While you could build a virtual router capable of forwarding 100Gbps aggregate, it's going to be cheaper for you to work with a purpose-built router/switch. Mark. _______________________________________________ juniper-nsp mailing list juniper-nsp@puck.nether.net https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp _______________________________________________ juniper-nsp mailing list juniper-nsp@puck.nether.net https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp
