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vMX Comparison Datasheet

You can also find this information in the MX sizing guide.

  vMX-S vMX-M vMX-L

vMX-XL

Throughput

250 Mbps

500 Mbps

1 Gbps

10 Gbps

Number of Tunnels (site-to-site VPN)

50

250

1,000

10,000 

Supported Features

Auto-VPN (SD-WAN termination from branch)

IPsec VPN

AnyConnect/L2TP VPN

VPN firewall

BGP and OSPF

One-Armed concentrator

NAT mode vMX

Geo IP Layer 7 Firewall Rules

Single WAN and LAN port (MX18.2+)

Security filtering (MX19.1+)

Advanced Malware Protection (MX19.1+)

Intrusion Detection/Prevention (MX19.1+)

Security Center (MX19.1+)

One-Armed Concentrator mode

Auto-VPN (SD-WAN termination from branch)

VPN firewall

Unsupported Features

High Availability (HA) - the recommended design for headend resiliency is DC-DC failover

Umbrella DNS Security (MR/Z1/Z3 Only)

Active Directory Content Filtering

HTTP Content Caching

802.1x Port Auth

MX Splash Pages

Dual WAN or LAN ports

High Availability (HA) - the recommended design for headend resiliency is DC-DC failover

Security filtering

Advanced Malware Protection

Intrusion Detection/Prevention

Umbrella DNS Security (MR/Z1/Z3 Only)

Active Directory Content Filtering

HTTP Content Caching

Geo IP Layer 7 Firewall Rules

802.1x Port Auth

Security Center

Threatgrid

MX Splash Pages

Dual WAN or LAN ports

IPsec VPN

AnyConnect/L2TP VPN

BGP and OSPF

NAT Mode

 

  AWS Azure Alibaba Cloud Global (including CN regions) GCP
vMX-S instance M4.large
C5.large
Standard_F4s_V2
Standard_D2_v2
Standard_D2_v3
C5.large
C6.large
c2-standard-4
vMX-M instance M4.large
C5.large
Standard_F4s_V2
Standard_D2_v2
Standard_D2_v3
C5.large
C6.large
c2-standard-4
vMX-L instance C5.xlarge Standard_F4s_v2 C5.xlarge
C6.xlarge
c2-standard-4
vMX-XL instance c6in.2xlarge  TBD TBD TBD
Recommended firmware vMX-S/M/L:
MX15.37+
vMX-XL:
MX18.2-XL+
vMX-S/M:
MX15.37+
vMX-L:
MX18.2+
MX15.37+ MX16.8+
Can stop/restart the instance (we do not recommend pause/hibernate) Yes Yes Yes Yes
Can re-configure after deployment (the vMX must be powered down) Yes Yes Yes Yes
Static IP support via dashboard Yes Yes Yes Yes
Static IP support via user-data No No No No
Licenses 1,3,5-year Enterprise License 1,3,5-year Enterprise License 1,3,5-year Enterprise License 1,3,5-year Enterprise License
BGP support MX15.37+ MX15.37+ MX15.37+ MX16.8+
NAT Mode Support Yes Yes Yes Yes
Concentrator Mode MX18.2+ MX15.37+ MX15.37+ MX16.8+

 

The following items should be noted in the above table:

  • vMX-XL is only supported in AWS. 
  • vMX-XL is supported in Passthrough or VPN Concentrator mode only. NAT mode is currently not supported on the vMX-XL
  • Static IP configuration from the dashboard, should match the IP address configuration on the cloud platform
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