Fibre Channel (FC) Basics for CCIE DC
When first looking at the blueprint for the CCNA/CCNP/CCIE Data Center track, one of my biggest fears was storage. My entire career thus far has been...
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When first looking at the blueprint for the CCNA/CCNP/CCIE Data Center track, one of my biggest fears was storage. My entire career thus far has been...
We’re all cut from the same cloth, or in other words, fabric. It only makes sense that we connect with each other in the most immediate...
Multicast, the strange, the backwards, the elusive. At least that’s what I used to think about it until I spent some time taking it out to...
BDF is listed in the CCIE Data Center Lab Blueprint as, “1.2.c – Implement BFD for dynamic routing protocols”. In this blog post, I’ll be explaining...
This post is a part of my CCIE:DC studies, but will be useful for anyone needing to quickly configure NetFlow in NXOS. For CCIE:DC purposes, an...
Here are the basic steps I took to configure 2 local ATA disks in a RAID1 and 2 local SSD disks stand-alone on a single B440-M2:...
If you’re in a company that uses Nexus 5Ks to run both LAN and SAN, and for some strange reason your SAN Administrator wants access to the...
My colleague at (ccie-or-null.net) and I recently came across a design limitation, or “opportunity,” with OTV and firewalls. The plan was to take a current environment with Layer 3...
This is a continuation of the previous blog “Configuring Nexus vPC – Part 1“. In this blog I’m taking a look at some of the best...
My favorite command in all of NX-OS – no feature vpc Kidding! It’s actually not that bad once you’re aware of how it works, what are...