Become CCIE : Step 4 Schedule

Step 4 : Schedule When you got a date of your ccie lab exam, you can schedule your personally agenda for reading and practicing.  When you make a schedule, be honest to yourself. You can schedule time in the weekend but if you are full with all kind of things, you will have to make … Read more

Become CCIE : Step 5 Find Study Partners

Step 5 : Find study partners You can do your journey by yourself and it is doable but when you have a companion, you will experience that the journey is easier. If a colleague is also starting with a CCIE journey you can together create a schedule and use the same equipment’s. What if you … Read more

Become CCIE : Step 6 Practice

Step 6 : Practice Although it is possible that you have some hands-on experience due to your job, the main focus should be practice, practice, practice. One time during a ccie coaching session I saw that a participant was very smart, but he was very slow with typing. I advised him to have typing lessons … Read more

Become CCIE : Step 9 Speed

Step 9 : Speed Now you know everything for becoming a CCIE. Theoretically and how to configure it. Now it is time to practice on speed. Remember that you have 3 minutes for each point to earn. If you use the “?” after a command you have an area where you still can gain speed. … Read more

Virtualbox error : VT-X is not available

Virtualbox could not start image again.

For installation of a Cisco Hyperflex system I am using Virtualbox on my laptop for the image. This is working perferct!

During a devnet session I had to install Docker on my laptop and I could create a Sparkbot. Really cool by the way. Then I wanted to install Hyperflex via my laptop, but I received some really strange errors.

VT-X is not available (VERR_VMX_NO_VMX

Virtualbox error
Virtualbox error

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Internet is getting faster. Now the bottleneck is Storage !

Well. Right now I don’t have any problem that my storage can’t keep up with my internetconnection.

And that has to do with my very slow internetconnection :
SlowInternet

Hopefully I will get fiber-to-the-home somewhere this year. And when I got 300 Mb, will I be able to download at that speed ?

Of course I can test it with  speedtest.net, but then all data remains in memory. Nothing is written to storage. (Doesn’t matter if it’s HDD or SDD.) So how to change this is you don’t want to invest in different hardware.

Think smart ! What is the fastest storage we got for ages….. It’s memory! I used RAM Drives since DOS 4.0 or something.

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