Colin McNamara – CCIE 18233 , VCP, EMCIE, NCDA, GEEK

Technical reviews and articles from a CCIE with extensive experience in designing and implementing converged enterprise networks.

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Entries Tagged as 'CCIE Storage'

The emergence of MDS features in Cisco’s datacenter networking equipment

August 8th, 2007 · No Comments · CCIE, CCIE Storage, CISCO, Technology

The emergence of MDS features in Cisco’s datacenter networking equipment For those that have been watching, there has been a trend of helpful MDS (Cisco’s director class storage switch) features into core networking products. The first feature I have noticed is the “do” command now available in configuraiton mode in ios 12.4. It allows you [...]

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Why was Storage Networking my first CCIE? And What did I do to prepare?

June 20th, 2007 · No Comments · CCIE, CCIE Storage, howto, Uncategorized

I got a question on groupstudy about my background, and why I chose Storage as my first CCIE. It seems like a good idea to post it here also. My background is all over the place. It goes from running a small ISP when I was 18 to managing international CallManager clusters, to enterprise data [...]

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What does it take to pass the CCIE exam?

June 16th, 2007 · 3 Comments · CCIE, CCIE Storage, howto, Uncategorized

What does it take to pass the CCIE exam? For those who haven’t heard yet, I passed my CCIE Lab on June 14th. Now I can officially put CCIE #18233 after my name. Anyone who has been down the same path understands how long of a road this is. I started down this path in [...]

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