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1. Chris  •  Aug 26, 2010 @5:45 am
   

   Hi Kevin,

   Currently using a SAVA SPE on ESX, it is clear that this product is supported on ESX infrastructure but i couldn’t find any statement on the support of the SAVA on ESXi infrastructure. I would think that there is not a problem as such, but would like a confirmation that we will not encounter any obstacles running our SAVA on ESXi.
   Would you be in a position to state that the Juniper SAVA is fully compatible on ESXi?

   Thanks for your blog
   Chris

2. KevinPeterson  •  Aug 26, 2010 @8:18 pm
   

   There is no doubt that it will run on ESXi. But…at least right now all we can sign up to support is VSphere 4.X/ESX4.0, as the QA commitement just to fully qualify that release is burdensome enough and we can’t afford to dilute that supportability.

   Of course, that might not even be a concern to you or others, as virtualization — almost by definition — is designed to give you the flexibility to in various virtualized configurations without having to worry nearly as much about the a potential support black hole. So, at lease in pilot and smaller scale deployments, I would not see a big risk to anyone running this particular configuration. In fact, I readily welcome the endeavor and the wish anyone going this route the best of luck. Please just keep in mind that the official support line is that we can only support things to the hypervisor itself and our reference architecture is currently running VSphere 4.0/ESX4.0.

   Bottom line: If you want the best possible support experience from Juniper, stick as close as you can to the reference architecture (what Juniper QA runs). With any other configurations, just run them within your own comfort level and beg me for held whenever you need to.

   I’m sure any open questions on ESXi will likely be answered by others here as well.

3. Chris  •  Aug 31, 2010 @4:17 am
   

   Kevin,
   Thanks for your prompt reply.

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