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 to [...]
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The emergence of MDS features in Cisco’s datacenter networking equipment
August 8th, 2007 · No Comments · CCIE, CCIE Storage, CISCO, Technology
Why was Storage Networking my first CCIE? And What did I do to prepare?
June 20th, 2007 · No Comments · CCIE, CCIE Storage, Uncategorized, howto
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 center [...]
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My CCIE Storage Shopping List
December 6th, 2006 · No Comments · CCIE Storage, CISCO, Uncategorized
My CCIE Storage Shopping List
Lets just start this out by saying, darn.. this is going to be expensive.
Now that that is out of the way, lets get started. Cisco publishes the hardware that is in the Storage lab.
Here is the hardware summary -
Cisco Routers
Cisco Catalyst Switches
Cisco Secure Access Control System
MDS 9506*
MDS 9216*
Port Analyzer Adapter
JBOD
RAID storage
HBA
3rd [...]
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