Licenses for vMX
vMX Licenses for AWS
Licenses are required to use vMX features in the Amazon Bring Your Own License (BYOL) model on AWS. When you order licenses, this information is bound to a customer ID. If you did not order the licenses, contact your account team or Juniper Networks Customer Care for assistance.
The vMX licenses are based on application packages and processing capacity. Table 1describes the features available with application packages.
Application Package |
vMX Licenses for AWS, KVM and VMware |
---|---|
BASE |
IP routing with up to 256,000 routes in the forwarding table Basic Layer 2 functionality, Layer 2 bridging and switching |
ADVANCE |
Features in the BASE application package, plus: IP routing with up to 2,000,000 routes in the forwarding table IP and MPLS switching for unicast and multicast applications Layer 2 features—Layer 2 VPN, VPLS, EVPN, and Layer 2 Circuit 16 instances of Layer 3 VPN |
PREMIUM |
Features in the BASE and ADVANCE application packages, plus: IP routing with up to 4,000,000 routes in the forwarding table Layer 3 VPN for IP and multicast |
An application package is associated with a bandwidth license. Bandwidth licenses that are not associated with a specific application package apply to all application packages. Bandwidth licenses are additive. For example, if you add a 500 Mbps license and a 1 Gbps license, you are entitled to use 1.5 Gbps of capacity.
vMX Evaluation License
Juniper Networks provides a 60-day evaluation license for vMX. On AWS, you can try one instance for 60 days with the BYOL model without incurring hourly software charges for this instance but AWS infrastructure charges still apply.
For information about the 60-day evaluation license for vMX, see https://www.juniper.net/us/en/dm/free-vmx-trial/.
vMX License Model Numbers
The Juniper Networks licenses are based on SKUs, which represent lists of features that the license enables.
The following SKUs are supported for vMX Bring Your Own License (BYOL):
VMX-100M-1YR
VMX-250M-1YR
VMX-500M-1YR
VMX-PRM-1G-1YR
VMX-PRM-5G-1YR
VMX-PRM-10G-1YR
vMX Licenses for KVM and VMware
Licenses are required for using vMX features. When you order licenses, this information is bound to a customer ID. If you did not order the licenses, contact your account team or Juniper Networks Customer Care for assistance. When you order a license, you receive instructions for generating license activation keys on the Juniper Networks License Management System.
The vMX licenses are based on application packages and processing capacity. Table 1 describes the features available with application packages.
Table 2 describes the queuing licenses.
Queuing License SKU |
Description |
---|---|
VMX-1G-Q |
1 Gbps queuing |
VMX-5G-Q |
5 Gbps queuing |
VMX-10G-Q |
10 Gbps queuing |
VMX-40G-Q |
40 Gbps queuing |
VMX-100G-Q |
100 Gbps queuing |
An application package is associated with a bandwidth license. vMX provides egress bandwidth in the following capacities: 100 Mbps, 250 Mbps, 500 Mbps, 1 Gbps, 5 Gbps, 10 Gbps, and 40 Gbps. Bandwidth licenses that are not associated with a specific application package apply to all application packages. Bandwidth licenses are additive. For example, if you add a 500 Mbps license and a 1 Gbps license, you are entitled to use 1.5 Gbps of capacity.
You can download the vMX software BASE application package with 1 Mbps bandwidth and evaluate it without a license. To use additional features, you must order the appropriate license. If you delete all valid licenses, you can only use the BASE application package with 1 Mbps bandwidth.
Supported in Junos OS Release 15.1F4 you can download the vMX software BASE application package with 1 Mbps bandwidth and evaluate it for 30 days without a license. To use additional features beyond the 30 days, you must order the appropriate license.
If you upgrade from a BASE package license to an ADVANCE or PREMIUM package license or if you downgrade from an ADVANCE or PREMIUM package license to a BASE package license, you must restart the routing protocol process. If your configuration has logical systems, you must restart the routing protocol process for all logical systems.
If you need to move your vMX installation to another host, you must remove vMX from the current host before installing vMX and adding the license on the new host.
Starting in Junos OS Release 17.2 with the appropriate vMX PREMIUM license, you can evaluate vBNG without a vBNG subscriber scale license for 30 days. After 30 days, you are limited to 10 subscriber sessions.
To deploy a vBNG instance, you must purchase these licenses:
vMX PREMIUM application package license with 1 Gbps, 5 Gbps, 10 Gbps, or 40 Gbps bandwidth
vBNG subscriber scale license with 1000, 10 thousand, 100 thousand, or 1 million subscriber sessions for one of these tiers:
Table 3: vBNG Subscriber Scale License Tiers Tier
Description
Introductory
L2TP features including L2TP LNS services, secure policy, service activation and deactivation
Preferred
Features in the Introductory tier, and DHCP subscriber services, PPP/LAC subscriber services, DHCP relay and DHCP local server
Elite
Features in the Preferred tier, and pseudowire head end termination, Gx, and Gy
Managing vMX Licenses
You must add a license to use vMX features. The licensed features are enforced based on the license you purchased.
Starting in Junos OS Release 17.4 for AWS, you must add a license if you are using vMX in the Bring Your Own License (BYOL) model.
If you upgrade from a BASE package license to an ADVANCE or
PREMIUM package license or if you downgrade from an ADVANCE or PREMIUM
package license to a BASE package license, you must restart the routing
protocol process (restart routing
). If your configuration
has logical systems, you must restart the routing protocol process
for all logical systems (restart routing logical-system logical-system-name
).
If you need to move your vMX installation to another host, you must remove vMX from the current host before installing vMX and adding the license on the new host.
Adding a License
To add a license key to the vMX:
Deleting a License
To delete a vMX license: