Important notification for customers upgrading to Junos SPACE Security Director 13.3R1.
Junos SPACE Security Director 13.3R1 will be available May, 2014.

Our internal testing has shown the following issues may occur:
Deployments using Junos SPACE Security Director 13.3R1 on the JA1500 hardware appliance or VMware virtual machine with 8GB of RAM or less may experience significant degradation in performance along with lack of system memory when one of the following scenarios occur

• When the number of firewall rules being published simultaneously is 8,000 or more. The 8,000 threshold can be reached by a single user publishing/updating a single firewall policy that has 8,000 firewall rules or two users simultaneously publishing/updating two firewall policies that each have 4,000 firewall rules each, etc….
• When the number of firewall rules being published/updated simultaneously is 4,000 or more and there are several administrators making changes within Security Director/Space Platform at the same time. The 4,000 threshold can be reached by a single user publishing/updating a single firewall policy that has 4,000 firewall rules or two users simultaneously publishing/updating two firewall policies that each have 2,000 firewall rules each, etc….

One of the following is recommended prior to upgrading to Junos SPACE Security Director 13.3R1 to avoid the issues stated:

• Migrate your Junos SPACE Security Director installation from the JA1500 hardware platform to the new JA2500 hardware platform
• Migrate your Junos SPACE Security Director installation from the JA1500 hardware platform to a VMware virtual machine using a minimum of 16GB RAM (32GB RAM is recommended)
• Increase the RAM allocation for any VMware virtual machine deployments to a minimum of 16GB RAM (32GB RAM is recommended)