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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
Step 10 : Pass The last step is 8 hours and it is the hardest to do. Pass the lab is the last step to become CCIE! You work so hard for it and the first time taking the lab is a mystery. What to expect. How will it be? Do not be nervous and … Read more
Hyperflex is a Hyper Converged Infrastructure solution and now Cisco announced the next gen of it ! Hyperflex with ALL FLASH. Features All the best features of the hybrid Hyperflex system, are also in the new All Flash system. See my blog : Top Features of Hyperflex And because the Log Structured file system is optimized … Read more
Please visit : Cisco Live Las Vegas 2017 Page Once I was a presenter at Cisco Live London 2012. Click the link for my bio and presentation. And I did also some design clinics in 2009. Being a presenter is really cool ! You got to meet a lot of new people who are interested in the … Read more
Factory Reset of a Fabric Interconnect To do a factory reset you will have to SSH into the FI’s. FI-Hyperflex-A# connect local-mgmt Cisco Nexus Operating System (NX-OS) Software TAC support: http://www.cisco.com/tac Copyright (c) 2009, Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. The copyrights to certain works contained in this software are owned by other third parties … Read more
Auto Healing ! Hyperflex is cool and I really like this feature. Not only on Powerpoint, but also how it’s working. You have to ask yourself : How can a system heal itself ? Doesn’t a RAID controller do that for storage ? Why change that into something completely different? How does it work ? … Read more
Is your Hyperflex system failing ? Powerpoints are nice selling tools, and I like to test all kinda things before I believe it ! So why not test a healthy Hyperflex System and remove a HDD ? When the system notice there is a HDD missing or corrupt, it will kick in self healing in … Read more
Cisco UCS Rack servers are more than pizzaboxes ! The most common servers do have the same CPU (intel), common memory and common HDD or SDD. So why would you choose for Cisco UCS Rack servers ? Here are 5 reasons : 5: Automation Ofcourse you can configure the whole rack server manually, but why … Read more
Expanding Cisco Hyperflex 1.8 Cluster Expanding a Cisco Hyperflex cluster (Hyper Converged Infrastructure) with a Cisco HX Server is very, very easy ! Make sure that you export the JSON file after the Hyperflex installation. This will makes life way easier ! Just use that file, fill in some credentials and wait about 30 minutes. … Read more
Hyperflex 1.8.1c installation Cisco Hyperflex Hyper converged (HCI) solution is getting easier and easier ! Before installing the only thing you will have to do is to download the Hyperflex 1.8 installer software from http://www.cisco.com/go/software The Fabric Interconnect and servers are already with the correct version of the needed software. The hyperflex 1.8 installer is an … Read more