Resource Scoping for vSLX on VMware

Towards installing vSLX on a VMware ESXi virtual machine (VM), prepare a resource-scope table.

The following topics contain scoping information:

Based on the above topics and your implementation scope, estimate your CPU, memory, and storage needs. Towards installing vSLX on a VM, prepare a resource-scoping table, using the following template:

Table 1. vSLX resource-scoping template
CPUs	Memory required	Storage required

vSLX-on-VM scope for OVF export

After you create a vSLX-on-VM instance and set up a virtual lab, you might want to export it as an OVF. You could then import it into another VM, efficiently creating one or more additional virtual labs. Multiple vSLX instances in multiple VMs is one way to configure Linking across vSLX instances with tunnels.

If you envision such a scenario, at what level of configuration should you export the OVF? Some considerations:

Export a fully configured instance, which might save configuration time after importing the OVF.
Export a "lean and mean" instance—for example, one SLX 9540 chassis to another SLX 9540 chassis—which might be easier to copy over your network.