Both have the same features except the Academic Edition is cheaper. VIRL comes in two different editions – Personal Edition and Academic Edition. VIRL also has extensive ability to integrate with third-party vendor virtual machines such as Juniper, Palo Alto Networks, Fortinet, F5 BigIP, Extreme Networks, Arista, Alcatel, Citrix and more.
Recently, I have seen extensive development and improvement made on the browser based operations using HTML5. VIRL provides a scalable, extensible network design and simulation environment using the VM Maestro frontend. Under the hood, VIRL is an OpenStack-based platform that runs IOSv, IOSvL2, IOS XRv, NX-OSv, CSR1000v, and ASAv software images on the built-in hypervisor.
Read our review on "The VIRL Book" – A Guide to Cisco’s Virtual Internet Routing Lab (Cisco Lab) Here Comes Cisco VIRLĬisco Virtual Internet Routing Lab ( VIRL) is a software tool Cisco developed to build and run network simulations without the need for physical hardware. Also, due to missing features and delays in supporting the recent Cisco image releases, Cisco is not recommending them to engineers and students. Because of lack of publicity and availability to average certification students and network engineers, online resources are limited and setting up a network takes much more effort. If you are not an authorized Cisco employee or trusted partner, usage of Cisco IOU is potentially a legal gray area. However, the legality of the source of Cisco images for GNS3 is questionable. One key advantage that Cisco IOU has is that it does not require nearly as much resources as GNS3 and VIRL would require. IOU was built as a native Solaris image and runs just like any other program. It is a fully working version of IOS that runs as a user mode UNIX (Solaris) process. Cisco IOS on UNIX (IOU) is another option for running Cisco routers in a virtual environment. GNS3 is a well-known free network simulation platform that has been around for many years. Until a few years ago it was the only option available, or you had to rent lab hours through one of the training companies. I have seen people spend hundreds or thousands of dollars (myself included) buying used networking equipment in order to build a home Cisco lab to gain practical experiences and study for certification exams. Whether you are studying for Cisco certification or just wanting to test certain network behaviors in a lab, no one would argue that practicing is the best way to learn. One of the most difficult things for people who are starting out in a networking career is getting their hands on the equipment.
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