Prepare for vSRX Virtual Firewall Deployment in Microsoft Hyper-V

Note the following guidelines when deploying vSRX Virtual Firewall on a Microsoft Hyper-V server:

• Starting in Junos OS Release 15.1X49-D80 and Junos OS Release 17.3R1, you can deploy the vSRX Virtual Firewall only on Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2012 R2 or 2012.

• Starting in Junos OS Release 15.1X49-D100 and Junos OS Release 17.4R1, you can deploy the vSRX Virtual Firewall on Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2016.

• Starting in Junos OS Release 22.3R1, you can deploy the vSRX Virtual Firewall 3.0 on Microsoft Hyper-V Windows Server 2019 and 2022 versions.

• Ensure that the host CPU supports a 64-bit x86 Intel processor and is running Windows.

• Ensure that you have a user account with administrator permissions to enable the computer to deploy a vSRX Virtual Firewall virtual machine (VM) using either Microsoft Hyper-V Manager or Windows PowerShell.

• Create the virtual switches on the Hyper-V host computer necessary to support the fxp0 (out-of-band management) interface and the traffic (revenue) interface supported by the vSRX Virtual Firewall VM. You create virtual switches using either the Microsoft Hyper-V Manager or Windows PowerShell. See Add vSRX Interfaces for details on adding virtual switches for the vSRX Virtual Firewall VM using the Virtual Switch Manager.

Figure 1 illustrates the deployment of a vSRX Virtual Firewall in a Hyper-V environment to provide security for applications running on one or more virtual machines.

Figure 1: Example of vSRX Virtual Firewall Deployment in Hyper-V