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...
August 16, 2014
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Upgrade SAN-OS to NX-OS
I recently purchased a pair of MDS 9216i switches for my CCIE Data Center studies, as they will suit me for the majority of my storage...
August 13, 2014
FabricPath for CCIE DC
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...
August 6, 2014
Multicast Refresher for CCIEDC
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...
July 20, 2014
Configuring BFD on Nexus NX-OS
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...
July 13, 2014
Configuring Netflow on Nexus NXOS
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...
July 9, 2014
Mixing SATA and SSD in Same B-Series UCS Server
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:...
June 6, 2014
Configuring Nexus SAN Admin Role
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...
June 5, 2014
Cisco Live 2014, here I come!
Although I’m not a NetVet, this will be my fourth attendance, and I’m stoked for this year’s Cisco Live in San Fran”Cisco”! I’ll be doing shots (of...
May 14, 2014
No, really, it’s not the network.
I recently spent an unhealthy amount of days troubleshooting performance issues between remote Data Centers. Good thing I did, too, as I got a friendly reminder...
May 1, 2014
