Minimum Hardware and Software Requirements

This topic provides you a list of hardware and software requirements to start a vJunosEvolved instance.

Minimum Hardware Requirements for vJunosEvolved lists the hardware requirements for vJunosEvolved.

Table 1: Minimum Hardware Requirements for vJunosEvolved
Description	Value
Sample system configuration	For lab simulation and low performance (less than 100 Mbps) use cases, any x86 processor (Intel or AMD) with VT-x capability. Intel Ivy Bridge processors or later. Example of Ivy Bridge processor: Intel Xeon E5-2667 v2 @ 3.30 GHz 25 MB cache
Number of cores	A minimum of 4 cores are required. This is the standard support with vJunosEvolved platform and can be adjusted in the configuration based on requirement.
Memory	A minimum of 8GB is required.
Other requirements	Intel VT-x capability. Hyperthreading (recommended) AES-NI

Table 2: Software Requirements for Ubuntu
Description	Value
Operating system Note: Only English localization is supported.	Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Debian 11 Bullseye
Virtualization	QEMU-KVM The default version for each Ubuntu or Debian version is sufficient. The apt-get install qemu-kvm installs this default version.
Required packages Note: Use the `apt-get install pkg name` or `sudo apt-get install <pkg-name>` commands to install a package.	qemu-kvm virt-manager libvirt-daemon-system virtinst libvirt-clients bridge-utils
Supported Deployment Environments	QEMU-KVM using libvirt You can run vJunosEvolved with EVE-NG in a VM or on bare metal.
	QEMU-KVM using libvirt EVE-NG supported for both bare metal and in a VM.
vJunosEvolved Images	You can access the images from the vJunos Labs download area of juniper.net at: Test Drive Juniper