SRX

Hello team:

Customer published a tender that requests a next generation firewall cluster.

The SRX1500 family fits almost perfectly, except by the fact that its factory default is a 100GB SSD whereas the RFP requests at least 200GB of local storage.

Question: ¿ can I buy a third party 200GB 2.5" SSD and replace the factory provided 100GB SSD? ¿ Will JUNOS be able to address the entire storage?

Your kind answers will be greatly appreciated.

Best regards

Rogelio Alvez

Argentina

There is (to my knowledge) no way to change the built-in SSD drive - but you can purchase a seperate SSD for the SRX1500 providing extra 120G of disk space. Juniper SKU: JSU-SSD-MLC-120

Fits in behind the blank cover seen on the back:

Others have been trying with third party ssd's in the SRX340 - their experience would probably work on SRX1500 as well. See this forum post: https://forums.juniper.net/t5/SRX-Services-Gateway/SRX340-SSD-installation/td-p/313718

Hello Jonasm, thanks a lot for your kind answer!

I supposed that the "factory-provided" SSD was actually the unit on the rear bay.

¿ So is there a 100GB SSD "hooked" in the motherboard and the unit on the rear bay would represent an extra storage unit?

Hi Ralvez,

Actually i didn't thought of the scenario that the SSD is already preoccupied with an SSD... so I went out in the lab to validate - and you are right. There 100G base SSD is present in the slot.

You could technically exchange this to a bigger SSD and do a USB installation to handle partitioning and formatting of the new SSD, but it will not be officially supported.

Strange that the base SKU is provided with a 100G SSD and you can buy an "upgrade" to 120G. A 240G version would make way more sense.

Anyway, now you know your options.