Something good before the weekend starts: Prepare your Labs folks 🙂
vEvo is finally here!!!!!
Download-Link:https://support.juniper.net/support/downloads/?p=vjunos-evolved
More Info soon – happy labbing 🙂
And ICYMI: the new EVE-NG has support for the vEX Template 🙂
Here is the official “unofficial” Template: vEX-EVEng.zip
Alternative Link: https://jncie.eu/vEX-EVEng.zip
HUGE Shoutouts to everybody who helped to get this up and running during the last few days!
Tippin my Fedora for you 🙂
As some of you have noticed, we got a little something: https://support.juniper.net/support/downloads/?p=vjunos
That’s right – it’s the new vEX that I already mentioned due to some rumors floating around in my last Webinar is finally out 🙂
It’s available for download now if you have a Juniper Account. Sadly, the image seems to have some issues and unfortunately, no one was reachable yet to discuss these issues from the Juniper side. If you are a Juniper dev for the vEX and like what we do with the EVE-NG Team then please reach out to me directly!
The Version is already fully supported in EVE-NG but there are still a lot of questionmarks left when it comes to the implementation and the configuration.
Hopefully, next time early access is granted to the folks doing extensive testing for virtual solutions (WINK WINK) to be able to solve the first questions BEFORE the image is released – this would have solved some confusion for sure 😉
Anyways – Let’s hope the vEX delivers what was promised (fully integrated into MIST including Campus-Fabric) so that we can finally have a virtual MIST Lab 🙂 I keep you posted once I’ve tested this image extensively myself.
Update 2023-04-25:
Juniper’s vEX (vjunos-switch) dev reached out to me so we can work on the remaining questions 🙂 THANK YOU SO MUCH!
Update 2023-04-26:
Here is the official “unofficial” Template: vEX-EVEng.zip
HUGE Shoutouts to everybody who helped to get this up and running during the last few days!
Tippin my Fedora for you 🙂
Hi all,
as usual, here are the slides from yesterday’s talk 🙂
I do these Webinars regularly – if there’s any specific topic regarding Juniper and EVE-NG reach out to me as I vary the topics from time to time. Ultimately these Webinars are for all of you 🙂
Have you ever encountered this really nasty “bug” where your vQFX will turn into the Linecard (LC) Role? Yeah – welcome to the club!
Thankfully you can avoid this (most of the time if the vQFX shows some mercy) by changing the Serial Number. My guess is, that the vQFX sees the remote PFE with the very same S/N and tries to bind to it – which will fail and therefore put the RE into the LC-state.
First power up your vQFX – you will immediately be presented with the current S/N during the very first messages when the RE boots:
Login as root and edit the file called /boot/loader.conf (trust me, it’s there) 😉
Scroll down to the very bottom and you will see the S/N:
Now you need to know a bit of vi-magic: use the shortcut “dd” to delete the line where your cursor is at (or manually go to the edit mode and delete the last line). Save the file (:wq!) – if you don’t force(!) it, the device will tell you this is a “read-only” permission. After that, reboot the RE.
Notice now, that this time during boot, there is no S/N – so the Junos bootup routine will generate a new one for you:
After the device boots, you can either issue “show chassis hardware” or re-enter the same /boot/loader.conf file to see our new and shiny S/N – with this, the vQFX will not try the usual shenanigans again – well, hopefully…
Hope this helps you on your Lab-Quest 🙂
As always – here are the slides from today’s webinar including all the Links needed in order to fetch the vDevices 🙂 If you encounter any problems feel free to reach out to me anytime! Thank you for joining and making these Webinars a success 🙂
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If you love your garden-power-plant you shouldn’t look at my new DayOneGreen Book 😀
I had some free time and used it to write a teaser for my new book, which will hopefully be published in 2023 🙂
It is extremely important to me to pass on knowledge – that has always been my attitude.
In three examples I will show you how you can save a lot of money by virtualizing your lab environment and at the same time reduce your CO2 footprint – even more with the Juniper vLabs – even in small environments.
Incidentally, at #Axians we are constantly developing new ideas together with #JuniperNetworks to make networks even more efficient and “simpler”. At the end of the day, solutions must also be manageable for small teams – that’s a challenge we accept 😉
Feel free to contact me if you have any questions.
Download the PDF here:
https://www.juniper.net/documentation/en_US/day-one-books/DayOne-Green-vLabs.pdf
Make sure to check out the DayOne Library:
https://www.juniper.net/documentation/jnbooks/us/en/day-one-books
And if you are interested in virtualized Labs here’s the Link to my official OpenLearning Course:
https://learningportal.juniper.net/juniper/user_activity_info.aspx?id=EDU-JUN-WBT-JOL-EVENG
Hi all, here you find (as promised) the slides from my last talk 🙂
If you have any questions or encounter problems feel free to reach out to me 🙂
For a quick “Juniper only” Lab you can also use the vLabs functionality to get started with JunOS and use your EVE-NG Server for your bigger, more customized Labs: https://jlabs.juniper.net/vlabs/
