Understand vSRX Virtual Firewall with Microsoft Hyper-V

vSRX Virtual Firewall in Microsoft Hyper-V

Microsoft Hyper-V is a hypervisor-based virtualization technology. It provides software infrastructure and basic management tools that you can use to create and manage a virtualized server computing environment. This virtualized environment can be used to address a variety of business goals aimed at improving efficiency and reducing costs. Hyper-V works on x86- and x64-based systems running Windows.

You deploy a vSRX Virtual Firewall virtual security appliance on a Microsoft Hyper-V server to provide networking security features for the virtualized server computing environment. Hyper-V implements isolation of virtual machines in terms of a partition. The vSRX Virtual Firewall virtual machine runs in Microsoft Hyper-V as a child partition. vSRX Virtual Firewall on Microsoft Hyper-V does not support the web-management http option for unencrypted HTTP connection settings.

Note the following for 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.

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: vSRX Virtual Firewall Deployment in Hyper-V