vSRX Latest Trial Version: 15.1X49-D70.3
vCenter 5.50, ESXi: 5.5.0U3
I deployed one vSRX OK with a basic config, all seemed OK, then I redeployed 2 new instances and tried to setup a simple chassis cluster. As soon as clustering was enabled after a reboot I suffer from disappearing interfaces - any combination of fxp, control link or fabric interfaces don't come up on one or both instances. After multiple reboots they might all come up, reboot again and any might not come up.
I am using 1 x dvSwitch for fxp and Control link, and another for fabric interfaces.
The control link seems stable now on both vSRX's but the fabric interface is quite flakey. I have enaled promiscuous, forged transits and MAC address changes on all switches, and at the moment both firewalls are deployed on the same host to eliminate any external network issues.
Sometime all interfaces refuse to come up, and looking at the ports on the dvSwitch the link states doen't show as Link Up. Checking the message log the only thing I can find is:
jsrp-service started
jsrpd: PVIDB: Attribute 'jsrpd.use_tvp_eeprom' not present in dB
jsrpd: failed to initialize sockets
Also many times I get an error that the jsrp-service subsystem is not running, and leaving it in this state if then goes to debug.
I am trialling this for an immediate project, and although first impressions of a single instance were good, trying to enable clustering hasn't been a great success. How do other people find chassis clustering on VMware? I understand there is always added complexity and variances of underlying infrastructure, but we have a fairly plain VMware configuration so I had hoped it would have been a fairly quick way to deploy 😕