I promised an update on my CCDE journey last week on Twitter, so here we go… I’ve been preparing for the practical for about 4 months and finally took it for the first time on 5.30.18. So, here’s my story… In preparation for the practical, I attended a CCDE bootcamp by Jeremy Filliben and it was awesome. Several of my study buddies from Cisco also attended, so we were able to collaborate during and after the bootcamp which was cool….
I was inspired to document my career journey after reading a post by Packet Pushers @ecbanks. Circa 1997 I was working in a local computer shop called Circle Computer in Ephrata, PA. We were a Commodore Amiga shop, but Commodore went bankrupt and had to start pushing x86 PC’s. The Intel Pentium MMX processors were hot at this time and Duke Nukem 3D was the FPS of choice. I was mostly responsible for building PCs…
#ConfigBytes Updated 02.17.2017 Full PDF: Cisco Nexus 9500 IO Module Matrix This is a work in progress, so if there are fields you’d like to see added, please tweet me @Cisco_East or post in the comments section below.
It all started at #CLUS Unfortunately, I was unable to attend Cisco Live US in Las Vegas this year. Don’t shed any tears for me as I was fortunate enough to have customers, friends, and co-workers attend. They got me some sweet swag and provided a play-by-play as things unfolded. One such morsel of information was regarding a “CCIE DNA” or “CCIE GUI”. At first I was just sitting in front of my monitor drifting into space thinking what the format of…
Woah… Deja Vu This all seems so familiar… OH YEA! I went through this once before already. I took the CCIE R/S version 3 with the high (naive) hopes of passing it my first attempt. #n00b The challenge I had with the R/S v4 update was that it felt like the content managers had a serious case of ADD. Open ended questions, no open ended questions, troubleshooting, etc… It was frustrating that I had to experience every possible derivative of the…
Game On Old Friend It’s hard to believe that it’s been almost 2 years since I passed the R/S lab and my digits (40755) were assigned. I remember the numbers just passed 40k and I was so hoping to get 40007. This way I could be 007. <GRIN> Now I’m ready for the next challenge. My motivation for CCIE DC was simple. First I wanted to challenge myself yet again. Second, I feel strongly that a deep understanding of UCS…
CCIE Data Center Lab Blueprint 1.1c Implementing Port Channels ConfigBytes #2 Port Channels A port channel bundles physical links into a channel group to create a single logical link that provides the aggregate bandwidth of up to 16 physical links. If a member port within a port channel fails, the traffic previously carried over the failed link switches to the remaining member ports within the port channel. F and M series line card port members cannot be mixed into…
VIRL is HERE along with a new logo. Dec 1st (aka Cyber Monday) brings us many good deals, including $50 off (virl50 at checkout) the $199 personal edition price. If you have not seen my previous posts on CML, basically VIRL is the same as CML without TAC support and limited scale (15 nodes). If you don’t want to read through my previous posts, I’ll summarize inline. http://www.4g1vn.com/2014/07/virlcml-update/ http://www.4g1vn.com/2014/09/cml-1-0-first-impressions-getting-started/ What is VIRL? VIRL enables…
When a Legend becomes Real I’m still pinching myself. Last week I delivered my very first Cisco Modeling Labs (CML) 1.0 demo to a customer. Overall, they were pretty darn excited, however there are some things that we need to address to make it a GREAT fit for their specific testing/validation environment. Let’s take a step back and talk high level about CML for a moment. CML is the Cisco TAC supported variant of VIRL. The FCS date for CML 1.0…
“It’s gonna take time, a whole lot of precious time, it’s going to take patience and time to do it right child.” “It’s gonna take money, a whole lot of spending money, it’s going to take plenty of money, to do it right” -George Harrison Song: I got my mind set on you I’m pretty sure George had something else on his mind and NOT the CCIE when he wrote that song. I can tell you no other lyrics resonate…