There are also modules for ISR G2 (quite powerfull) which can host OS/Hypervisor http://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/products/collateral/servers-unified-computing/ucs-e-series-servers/data_sheet_c78-705787.pdf
On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 2:01 PM, Saku Ytti <s...@ytti.fi> wrote: > On 20 October 2015 at 01:42, Chip Marshall <c...@2bithacker.net> wrote: > > Hey, > > > See page 4 on the spec sheet: > > http://www.juniper.net/assets/us/en/local/pdf/datasheets/1000531-en.pdf > > > > No idea what's involved with packaging the VM and getting it there, but > > should open up some interesting possibilties. > > What are those possibilities? How can you leverage VM in your > router/switch? Do you have access to the high performance NPU? Or some > high-performance link to forwarding-plane? > > If it's just plain old VM in server, why would you want to save 1kUSD > on installing compute to the rack and add complexity/risk to your > network infrastructure? JunOS, IOS-XR are very fickle already and fail > on the darnest things, I'd be very hesitant to put random VM there > without extremely compelling justification. > > -- > ++ytti >
