Juniper offers an amazing platform that gives you the ability to learn the Junos CLI without having to spend hundreds of dollars on a single device.
The Junos Firefly is a Virtual SRX platform that runs on the VMWare hyper-visor that provides the same functionality as hardware devices. The vSRX supports up to 8 interfaces and can be used in place of a hardware device however performance will be directly related to the performance of your virtual infrastructure.
However when it comes to education and learning Junos, this platform makes a perfect cost effective solution to get your hands wet.
You can build a small lab using the vSRX with 5 devices on VMWware Workstation and learn the basics of Junos. The vSRX supports all features that are covered on the JNCIA and JNCIS-ENT blueprints from RIP, OSPF, Static Routing, Firewall Policies, NAT and more.
The vSRX however has limited support for switching so with this in mind it cannot replace the Juniper EX Series switch line.
This website will be designed around the vSRX and 3x hardware Juniper EX-3200-24T Series switches. The switches will be used in the switching section to demonstrate spanning tree, trunking, vlan configuration and other general managed switch configurations.
mamamiaw Dec 07 , 2013 at 5:39 PM /
Can i study JNCIS-Sec with Firefly?
Matthew George Dec 08 , 2013 at 2:30 AM /
mamamiaw -> the vSRX supports all security features that the physical SRX does except for ethernet-switching.
codifier Dec 16 , 2013 at 2:12 AM /
Has Juniper made any announcements regarding availability?
Matthew George Dec 16 , 2013 at 2:18 AM /
From what I’ve heard on IRC by people that work with Juniper, it should be released in Q1 of 2014
NightStalker Jan 02 , 2014 at 8:14 PM /
You can find the .ova for the 12.1×44-d10.4 release online now if you search. From what I can tell its only a 30 day trial unless you have a license key however:
root@vsrx1> show version
Hostname: vsrx1
Model: junosv-firefly
JUNOS Software Release [12.1X44-D10.4]
root@vsrx1> show system license
License usage:
Licenses Licenses Licenses Expiry
Feature name used installed needed
all 0 1 0 29 days
Kent May 14 , 2014 at 3:24 PM /
Can I have the URL to download the ova file? Thanks!
rajeev singh Jul 28 , 2014 at 10:53 AM /
http://www.juniper.net/support/downloads/?p=junosvfirefly-eval#sw
you need to have juniper account to download VMware firefly file.
jeff s Aug 15 , 2014 at 4:53 AM /
I tried downloading the file twice and both times it failed to load with the following error:
The import failed because /Users/jeffreyschwartz/Downloads/Images/junos-vsrx-12.1X46-D10.2-domestic.ovf did not pass OVF specification conformance or virtual hardware compliance checks.
Click Retry to relax OVF specification and virtual hardware compliance checks and try the import again, or click Cancel to cancel the import. If you retry the import, you might not be able to use the virtual machine in VMware Fusion.
when I hit retry I get the following:
Failed to open OVF descriptor
I’m running the latest version of fusion on the latest version of OSX, any suggestions?
mehdi Apr 11 , 2016 at 6:13 AM /
Hi, recently I installed VSRX release 15.1.x47-D40 on vmware. the problam is I don’t have any “GE” interfaces.just “em” interfaces. How can I access to “ge” interfaces?
Thanks