Juniper vMX router

[Alvaro Pereira]

Juniper has just release a virtual MX router, which seems pretty cool:
http://www.juniper.net/assets/us/en/local/pdf/datasheets/1000522-en.pdf

The architecture looks awesome:

Virtual Control Plane (VCP), which is Junos OS hosted on a virtual machine (VM).

-> This is a FreeBSD (Junos) VM

The Virtual Forwarding Plane (VFP) runs the packet  forwarding engine, which is the programmable Junos Trio microcode optimized and compiled for x86 environments.  Juniper also leveraged Intel toolkits, including DPDK and Single Root IO Virtualization (SR-IOV), to further enhance forwarding performance.

-> This is a Linux + DPDK VM

Wonder if the VCP needs to be on the same host as the VFP...

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Alvaro

[alex.va...@cybera.ca]

vRouter is an integral part of Juniper Contrail, I’m surprised it hasn’t been released together with OpenContrail.

Regarding the VCP separation, it should be, Cisco NX v1000 had this ability since the inception and VMware vDS even before that. Traditionally you run data plane as a hypervisor plugin, so there is no place for control plane in there, it has to be separate.

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Alex

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