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Cisco Meraki Documentation

vMX Comparison Datasheet

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

 

vMX-S

vMX-M

vMX-L

Throughput

250 Mbps

500 Mbps

1 Gbps

Number of Tunnels (site-to-site VPN)

50

250

1,000

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

One WAN and One LAN port (MX18.2+)

Security filtering (MX19.1+)

Advanced Malware Protection (MX19.1+)

Intrusion Detection/Prevention (MX19.1+)

Security Center (MX19.1+)

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

All vMX instances require licensing for use. Licensing can be purchased in two tiers for the vMX: Enterprise and Advanced Security. For more information about the features available for each type of licensing, please refer to this article.

  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 and Advanced Security License 1,3,5-year Enterprise and Advanced Security License 1,3,5-year Enterprise and Advanced Security License 1,3,5-year Enterprise and Advanced Security 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:

  • Static IP configuration from the dashboard, should match the IP address configuration on the cloud platform
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