Recent content by l3thal6

I'll deploy another folding VM!

I pretty much took my gaming desktop and turned it into an ESXi whitebox. The only thing that didn't work was the software raid controller on my motherboard or the NIC. I bought an Intel PCI-E NIC and I have had no other problems for 5 months. Specs: ASUS Maximus IV Gene-Z Intel i5 2500K 32GB...

I don't do ANY computer work for free anymore, I have studied too much and worked too hard to devalue my services. Additionally, on my personal computer I have a few IDEs , some text editors, an SSH client, vSphere client, media player, MS Office 2013 and Steam client. Clean desktop and...

Looking good!

In 50 years our embedded personal computers will do that speed :D

Just upgraded my physical host to ESXi 5.1, going to rebuild my virtual vSphere Lab with ESXi 5.1 also.

I can't answer your questions in regards to VSA but I can offer a cheaper (free) alternative for virtualized shared storage. Have you considered FreeNAS?

Have you considered a whitebox or three. You could easily build some i5/i7, 32GB DDR3 boxes and then run virtual ESXi hosts and storage as guest VM's on top of a bare metal ESXi install. All you need to do is echo vhv.allow = "TRUE" into the \etc\vmware\config file on the bare metal install...

Although security through obscurity is never a valid solution one thing that I do on my home network is forward a random port to RDP to an external server. I also lock down just who can access RDP services from the WAN via an ACL. Of course in a production environment everything would also be...

The Cisco Campus model is definitely something to familiarize yourself with. I've deployed and maintained it in several large networks and I even run it in my home network. http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/solutions/Enterprise/Campus/campover.html

BPDUGUARD and switchports configured as static access ports.

Congratulations! Keep up the momentum and chase down CCNP!

Got all of my wisdom teeth torn out today, but I am using my extra time off and this weekend to spend a lot of time with BGP. Forcing myself to use minimal painkillers so I can keep my mind clear, plus a little pain helps me stay alert during some of my extended reading sessions.

Well, after talking with a few of the CCIE's at work I decided to ramp up my study plans. One of the CCIE's actually got his magic numbers at 25 years old ( I am 22) and he told me that I could get my CCIE just as quickly based on what he has seen so far. So, I got motivated and pulled the...

Nice, I am going to get started with CCIE R&S as soon as I finish up CCNP R&S. For CCNP Switch I used 2x 3550 and 2x 2950 which worked pretty well (I passed the exam) The only problem with the 3550 is that it can't do PVLAN's or IPv6 so once I start CCIE I'll need to get some 3560's. I set...