Honestly stick to GNS3 and IOU. With CCNA all you need is the Cisco Press cert guide and tons of subnetting practice. And for CCNP I can not think of a reason to get real hardware.
I have a surplus of Cisco IP phones that will not support 3rd-party SIP. Or even if they do, they are a pain to get the SIP firmware loaded.
And of course, Call Manager exposure looks more marketable than asterisk.
I ditch trixbox as my home pbx for PIAF for about a year and couldn't be happier. PiAF has a much better support community than trix.
I will be moving to Cicso CUCM soon but PIAF gave me my start in learning pbx.
Excellent. That is actually a very good point. I am cash strapped after this upgrade so I am afraid I can not cough up for the extra 3 HDDs. I think I am gonna go the route you suggested except adding another step of spreading my array data to individual 1TBs after the initial backup to 3 x...
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I currently have 12 x 1TB HDDs in RAID6 configuration with an Areca 1231ML card. I am running out of drive space so I bought 12 x 3TB Hitachis.
Is it possible to replace a drive at a time in my existing array and rebuild (12 times)? Will the end result give me 30TB of storage or the...
I currently have 12 x 1TB HDDs in RAID6 configuration with an Areca 1231ML card. I am running out of drive space so I bought 12 x 3TB Hitachis.
Is it possible to replace a drive at a time in my existing array and rebuild (12 times)? Will the end result give me 30TB of storage or the...