Juniper vMX evaluation - how?
Pardon if this is off-topic -- but this is really beginning to wind me up. So, http://www.juniper.net/us/en/dm/free-vmx-trial/ shows that Juniper Networks vMX is available for a 60-day evaluation. This requires filling out a form to create an account on juniper.net. I don't currently have such a login. $CLIENT filled out such a form well over a month ago, and never heard anything back. Normally, I'd expect to be able to download as soon as an account is approved. Meanwhile, we get preoccupied with other tasks. Is some special magic required to acquire an evaluation copy? The 60 day trial license is directly downloadable from the above link, but the tarball is not. $CLIENT was just referred to it by $RESELLER.
I downloaded it in the past and can¹t remember having any issues downloading it Getting it to work in my environment was a bit more challenging, however. I do have a Juniper login which is required. I also just verified that I can download application package: vMX <https://webdownload.juniper.net/swdl/dl/secure/site/1/record/60759.html> MD5 SHA1 <https://www.juniper.net/support/downloads/?p=vmx> 15.1F4 tgz 1,561,459,359 28 Dec 2015 You need to be logged in to download the vMX archive as well as the eval license key. Both I was able to get once logged in. Cheers, Ed On 4/13/16, 5:54 PM, "NANOG on behalf of Bruce Simpson" <nanog-bounces@nanog.org on behalf of bms@fastmail.net> wrote:
Pardon if this is off-topic -- but this is really beginning to wind me up.
So, http://www.juniper.net/us/en/dm/free-vmx-trial/ shows that Juniper Networks vMX is available for a 60-day evaluation. This requires filling out a form to create an account on juniper.net.
I don't currently have such a login. $CLIENT filled out such a form well over a month ago, and never heard anything back. Normally, I'd expect to be able to download as soon as an account is approved. Meanwhile, we get preoccupied with other tasks.
Is some special magic required to acquire an evaluation copy? The 60 day trial license is directly downloadable from the above link, but the tarball is not. $CLIENT was just referred to it by $RESELLER.
On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 12:54 PM, Bruce Simpson <bms@fastmail.net> wrote:
Is some special magic required to acquire an evaluation copy? The 60 day trial license is directly downloadable from the above link, but the tarball is not. $CLIENT was just referred to it by $RESELLER.
I'd be interested as well — I submitted a form, nothing but crickets. -- Jeremy Austin (907) 895-2311 (907) 803-5422 jhaustin@gmail.com Heritage NetWorks Whitestone Power & Communications Vertical Broadband, LLC Schedule a meeting: http://doodle.com/jermudgeon
It was a struggle to get anywhere with vMX when we last tried ~8months ago. Nobody at Juniper seemed to know anything about it or who to talk to. In any event, you may be able to get more information by asking over at juniper-nsp@. Josh On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 4:58 PM, Jeremy Austin <jhaustin@gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 12:54 PM, Bruce Simpson <bms@fastmail.net> wrote:
Is some special magic required to acquire an evaluation copy? The 60 day trial license is directly downloadable from the above link, but the
tarball
is not. $CLIENT was just referred to it by $RESELLER.
I'd be interested as well — I submitted a form, nothing but crickets.
-- Jeremy Austin
(907) 895-2311 (907) 803-5422 jhaustin@gmail.com
Heritage NetWorks Whitestone Power & Communications Vertical Broadband, LLC
Schedule a meeting: http://doodle.com/jermudgeon
<2cents> Avoid vMX 14.x - go straight to 15.x, save yourself worlds of pain. 15.x runs well kvm/esxi/etc. </2cents> On 4/13/16, 2:14 PM, "NANOG on behalf of Josh Baird" <nanog-bounces+d.lasher=f5.com@nanog.org on behalf of joshbaird@gmail.com> wrote:
It was a struggle to get anywhere with vMX when we last tried ~8months ago. Nobody at Juniper seemed to know anything about it or who to talk to. In any event, you may be able to get more information by asking over at juniper-nsp@.
Josh
On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 4:58 PM, Jeremy Austin <jhaustin@gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 12:54 PM, Bruce Simpson <bms@fastmail.net> wrote:
Is some special magic required to acquire an evaluation copy? The 60 day trial license is directly downloadable from the above link, but the
tarball
is not. $CLIENT was just referred to it by $RESELLER.
I'd be interested as well — I submitted a form, nothing but crickets.
-- Jeremy Austin
(907) 895-2311 (907) 803-5422 jhaustin@gmail.com
Heritage NetWorks Whitestone Power & Communications Vertical Broadband, LLC
Schedule a meeting: http://doodle.com/jermudgeon
Thanks to all who responded (and thanks to the NANOGger who provided me with images). I am a bit disappointed that others have also had the silent treatment after signing up to download vMX. I am unsurprised that vMX 14.x has had teething troubles. I also hope JNPR listen to us that Intel are not the only SR-IOV game in town. Onward...
I too have been waiting a couple weeks for my login to Juniper to do a trial download of vMX. A sidenote - the new version of cloudrouter has DPDK support. But I couldn't get it to boot in my limited afternoon time with it. On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 5:39 AM, Bruce Simpson <bms@fastmail.net> wrote:
Thanks to all who responded (and thanks to the NANOGger who provided me with images).
I am a bit disappointed that others have also had the silent treatment after signing up to download vMX.
I am unsurprised that vMX 14.x has had teething troubles. I also hope JNPR listen to us that Intel are not the only SR-IOV game in town. Onward...
Creating the juniper.net account should be pretty straightforward. If there is an issue in getting the login to work, I would contact Juniper. If they are an authorized partner, then $RESELLER would surely have access to the download. thanks, -Randy ----- On Apr 13, 2016, at 4:54 PM, Bruce Simpson bms@fastmail.net wrote:
Pardon if this is off-topic -- but this is really beginning to wind me up.
So, http://www.juniper.net/us/en/dm/free-vmx-trial/ shows that Juniper Networks vMX is available for a 60-day evaluation. This requires filling out a form to create an account on juniper.net.
I don't currently have such a login. $CLIENT filled out such a form well over a month ago, and never heard anything back. Normally, I'd expect to be able to download as soon as an account is approved. Meanwhile, we get preoccupied with other tasks.
Is some special magic required to acquire an evaluation copy? The 60 day trial license is directly downloadable from the above link, but the tarball is not. $CLIENT was just referred to it by $RESELLER.
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