Cisco Meraki vMX - Medium
Extend secure SD-WAN connectivity from branch sites to resources in public cloud environments
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Overview:
Virtual MX (vMX) is a virtual instance of a Meraki security & SD-WAN appliance. It is dedicated to providing the simple configuration benefits of site-to-site Auto VPN for organizations running or migrating IT services to public cloud environments. An Auto VPN tunnel to a vMX is like having a direct Ethernet connection to a private data center.
Features and functionality of the vMX appliance:
- Securely connect branch sites with a physical MX appliance to resources in public cloud environments in two clicks with Auto VPN
- Extend SD-WAN to public cloud environments for optimized access to business critical resources
- An optimal path can be maintained using Dynamic Path Selection, for traffic destined for regular servers in a data center behind a physical MX, or virtual servers behind a virtual MX
- No hardware, only a Meraki license is required
VPN THROUGHPUT
500 Mbps
CLIENT VPN SUPPORT
Yes
VPN TUNNELS
250
SUPPORTED CLOUD PLATFORMS
AWS
Azure
Google Cloud Platform
Alibaba Cloud
Licensing Details
Meraki
A Meraki vMX - Medium enterprise cloud-management license is required and available in 1, 3, or 5 year durations.
Public Clouds
The vMX Medium appliance is available in all major public cloud marketplaces:
- Amazon Web Services
Amazon charges either hourly or monthly for use of EC2 instances. Learn more about AWS EC2 pricing here. - Microsoft Azure
Microsoft charges either hourly or annually for use of VM instances. Learn more about Azure VM pricing here. - Google Cloud Platform
Google Cloud Platform (GCP) charges pay-as-you-go for use of its services. Learn more about GCP pricing here. - Alibaba Cloud
Alibaba Cloud charges either pay-as-you-go or subscription options for use of its services. Learn more about Alibaba Cloud pricing here.
Features:
Advanced quality of experience (QoE) analytics
- End-to-end health of web applications at-a-glance across the LAN, WAN, and application server
- Machine-learned smart application thresholds autonomously applied to identify true anomalies based on past behavioral patterns
- Monitor the health of all MX WAN links, including cellular, across your entire organization
- Detailed hop-by-hop VoIP performance analysis across all uplinks
Agile on-premises and cloud security capabilities informed by Cisco Talos
- Next-gen layer 7 firewall for identity-based security policies and application management
- Advanced Malware Protection with sandboxing; file reputationbased protection engine powered by Cisco AMP
- Intrusion prevention: PCI-compliant IPS sensor using industry-leading SNORT® signature database from Cisco
- Granular and automatically updated category-based content filtering
- Other capabilities: SSL decryption/inspection, data loss prevention (DLP), cloud access security broker (CASB), SaaS tenant restrictions, granular app control, file type control
Branch gateway services
- Built-in DHCP, NAT, QoS, and VLAN management services
- Web caching: accelerates frequently accessed content
- Load balancing: combines multiple WAN links into a single high-speed interface, with policies for QoS, traffic shaping, and failover
- Smart connection monitoring provides automatic detection of layer 2 and layer 3 outages and fast failover, including the option of integrated LTE Advanced or 3G/4G modems
Intelligent site-to-site VPN with Cisco SD-WAN powered by Meraki
- Auto VPN allows automatic VPN route generation using IKE/IKEv2/IPsec setup; runs on physical MX appliances and as a virtual instance in public and private clouds
- SD-WAN with active / active VPN, policy-based-routing, dynamic VPN path selection, and support for application-layer performance profiles to ensure prioritization of applications types that matter
- Interoperates with all IPsec VPN devices and services
- Automated MPLS to VPN failover within seconds of a connection failure
- L2TP IPsec remote client VPN included at no extra cost with support for native Windows, Mac OS X, iPad, and Android clients
- Support for Cisco AnyConnect remote client VPN (AnyConnect license required)
Industry-leading cloud management
- Unified firewall, switching, wireless LAN, and mobile device management through an intuitive web-based dashboard
- Template-based settings scale easily from small deployments to tens of thousands of devices
- Role-based administration, configurable email alerts for a variety of important events, and easily auditable change logs
- Summary reports with user, device, and application usage details archived in the cloud
Meraki virtual MX appliances for public and private clouds
Virtual MX (vMX) is a virtual instance of a Meraki security and SD-WAN appliance dedicated specifically to providing the simple configuration benefits of site-to-site Auto VPN for organizations running or migrating IT services to public or private cloud environments. An Auto VPN tunnel to a vMX is like having a direct Ethernet connection to a private data center.
Features and functionality of the vMX appliance:
- Securely connect branch sites with a physical MX appliance to resources in public cloud environments in three clicks with Auto VPN
- Extend SD-WAN to public cloud environments for optimized access to business-critical resources
- Only a Meraki license is required
- Available in three VPN throughput-based sizes to suit a wide range of use cases: small, medium, large
- Support for private cloud environments through Cisco NFVIS
vMX functions like a VPN concentrator and includes SD-WAN functionality like other MX devices. For public cloud environments, a vMX is added via the respective public cloud marketplace and, for private cloud environments, a vMX can be spun up on a Cisco UCS running NFVIS. Setup and management in the Meraki dashboard, just like any other MX.
Virtual appliance models
| vMX - Small | vMX - Medium | vMX - Large | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Recommended use cases | Extend secure SD-WAN connectivity from branch sites to resources in public and private cloud environments | ||
| Interfaces | Virtual | Virtual | Virtual |
| Supported Cloud Platforms | AWS Azure Google Cloud Platform Alibaba Cloud Cisco NFVIS |
AWS Azure Google Cloud Platform Alibaba Cloud Cisco NFVIS |
AWS Google Cloud Platform Alibaba Cloud Cisco NFVIS |
| Maximum site-to-site VPN Throughput | 200 Mbps | 500 Mbps | 1 Gbps |
| Maximum Concurrent site-to-site VPN Tunnels | 50 | 250 | 1,000 |
| Client VPN Support | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Documentation:
Download the Cisco Meraki MX Series Datasheet (PDF).
Pricing Notes:
- All Prices are Inclusive of GST
- Pricing and product availability subject to change without notice.
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