Juniper has released a virtual form factor SRX called Firefly Perimeter (vSRX). It provides security and networking features of the SRX Series Gateways in a virtual machine format. It can be spawned as a VM on a KVM+QEMU/VMWare hypervisor running on a X86 server. This post will give details on how to set it up as a standalone SRX box which can be used in any of your network deployments just like a normal SRX. Pre-requisites Have an X86 server with atleast 4 GB ram, 4 GB harddisk space and two ethernet ports. Install Ubuntu 14.04 on it (Centos should also work provided KVM related changes are taken care of) Assumption: You have logged into the system as root user. Get the Software Firefly Perimeter can be download as a part of Juniper's software evaluation program and can be tried out for 60 days. You will need a Juniper account to download it here . For the purpose of this post I will be using the appliance at "Firefly KVM Appliance - FOR EVALUATION ". Configure...
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