VM Host Operations and Management

With the virtualization of the Routing Engine, Junos OS supports new request and show commands associated with the host and hypervisor processes. The commands are related to:

• Reboot, halt, and power management for the host.

• Software upgrade for the host.

• Disk snapshot for the host.

The following request commands are not available on the RE-MX-X6, RE-MX-X8, and RE-PTX-X8 Routing Engines:

• request system halt

• request system partition abort

• request system power-off

• request system power on

The following commands can be used only for the guest Junos OS:

• request system reboot

• request system snapshot

• request system software add

• request system zeroize

You can use the following new request vmhost commands on the host OS:

• request vmhost cleanup

• request vmhost file-copy

• request vmhost halt

• request vmhost hard-disk-test

• request vmhost power-off

• request vmhost power-on

• request vmhost reboot

• request vmhost snapshot

• request vmhost software abort in-service-upgrade

  Note:

  This command is not supported on the QFX10002-60C and PTX10002-60C devices.

• request vmhost software add

• request vmhost software in-service-upgrade

  Note:

  This command is not supported on the QFX10002-60C and PTX10002-60C devices.

• request vmhost software rollback

• request vmhost zeroize