Junos Space Virtual Appliance Deployment Overview
The Junos Space Virtual Appliance is distributed in the Open Virtualization Appliance (OVA) and qcow2 formats.
You can deploy the Junos Space Virtual Appliance *.ova file on a VMware ESX server version 4.0 or later or VMware ESXi server version 4.0 or later and the *.qcow2 on a Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) server. The Junos Space Virtual Appliance Release 16.1R1 and later can be deployed on qemu-kvm (KVM) Release 1.5.3-105.el7 or later which runs on CentOS Release 7.2.
 | Note: Though a KVM server on other Linux distributions is supported, we recommend that you use KVM on CentOS. |
After the Junos Space Virtual Appliance is deployed, you can use the VMware vSphere client or Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) to connect to the VMware ESX (or VMware ESXi ) server or KVM server respectively and configure the Junos Space Virtual Appliance.
| Note: Where the Junos Space Virtual Appliance documentation references “ESX server,” you can use either the VMware ESX server version 4.0 or later or VMware ESXi server Version 4.0 or later. |
| Note: VMware VMotion is not supported for moving Junos Space Virtual Appliances from one VMware ESX server to another VMware ESX server. |
The minimum hardware requirements for deploying a Junos Space Virtual Appliance are as follows:
- 64-bit quad processor with a clock speed of at least 2.66 GHz
- Four virtual CPUs
- 1-Gbps network
- 32-GB RAM to configure the virtual appliance as a Junos
Space node or fault monitoring and performance monitoring (FMPM) node
Note: 64-GB RAM is required if the number of rules per firewall (SRX) cluster is more than 6000 and if firewall policies of similar sizes are being concurrently published.
- 500-GB hard disk
Ensure that 100-GB free disk space is available if the Junos Space Virtual Appliance is to be configured as a FMPM node. For information about adding disk resources, refer to Adding Disk Resources for a Junos Space Virtual Appliance.
- 1-TB hard disk if you are configuring Database nodes
- Configure Open VM tools (see Starting Open VM Tools in Junos Space Platform for details.)
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