> > It looked a lot lot an abandoned project. So unless something has > changed in the last few years it's not looking good. >
It's absolutely not abandoned. There have been vMX images up for download for every mainline Junos revision since at least 18.2 that I can recall. The documentation can be sparse at times, but didn't seem to take much effort to figure it out. On Mon, Mar 14, 2022 at 2:24 PM Daryl G. Jurbala <da...@introspect.net> wrote: > The last time I worked with vMX was several years ago. The image was > outdated to the point of having to fire up an older version of VMWare to > export the two VMs so I could import them back into 6. The > documentation barely existed. I had to figure out which vmware adapters > corresponded to which vMX adapters. No one really seemed to be able to > help at Juniper, even though we ended up licensing the things so we were > "real" customers of this product. > > It looked a lot lot an abandoned project. So unless something has > changed in the last few years it's not looking good. > > ------ Original Message ------ > From: "Jon Sands" <fohdee...@gmail.com> > To: "nanog" <nanog@nanog.org> > Sent: 3/14/2022 14:09:46 > Subject: Juniper vMX Trial - fake news? > > >Has anyone here actually been granted a vMX trial to demo the thing? > Their page makes it seem dead simple ( > https://www.juniper.net/us/en/dm/vmx-trial-download.html) - just request > an account and/or trial and you're off to the races with a 60 day temp > license. I've had two customers now asking me if vMX would be a fit for > them and my honest answer is I have no clue, because I've been completely > ignored by Juniper the two times I've tried to trial the thing. > > > >Spoke to two different colleagues within the past ~6mo who had the exact > same experience - sent in a trial request, zero response, not even a > denial. I suppose Juniper isn't interested in selling these any longer? > It's not like we're signing up with hotmail accounts either, myself and my > colleagues have used our business emails that pull up as admin/PoCs on 4 or > 5 unique ASNs. I'm not sure what more Juniper wants, but I can find reports > of the same behavior from Juniper going back 6 years regarding vMX trials: > > > >https://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/2016-April/085229.html > > > >https://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/2016-April/085231.html > > > >I've been denigrated to downloading some ancient eval version from a > stranger's google drive I found in a search result, not much of it is > matching up with Juniper's current documentation, but I suppose this is the > experience they prefer potential customers to have :P > > > >-- Jon Sands > >MFI Labs > >https://fohdeesha.com/ > > > >
