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
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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
OTV for Secured / Firewalled Networks – A Design Consideration
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...
March 27, 2014
Configuring Nexus vPC – Part 2 – Parameters
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...
March 11, 2014
Configuring Nexus vPC – Part 1
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...
March 11, 2014
A lesson in verifying Nexus 7000 MTU
Nexus 7000 has it’s system jumbo mtu set to 9216 by default. Even though system MTU is set, notice the interface MTU: N7K-1# sh run all...
February 18, 2014
Export Check Point Policies to HTML or XML
Check Point polices are easy to manage when you have access to SmartDashboard. However, sometimes you may need to share these polices with other individuals, such...
February 6, 2014
Juniper – Cisco – GRE IPSec with OSPF
I had the privilege of introducing Cisco and Juniper into a new relationship. They were happy, holding hands and exchange routes, but the relationship was taboo,...
February 1, 2014
