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Fibre Channel Security Protocol (FC-SP) provides the capabilities for Diffie-Hellman Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol (DHCHAP) to authenticate switches and/or hosts attempting to enter the fabric. The...
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...
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...
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...
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...
