Datacenter Materials

Panzer919

I recently changed jobs and found that there might be an opportunity for me to take over a Datacenter engineer role. I wanted to know what materials do those of you who either work in Datacenters or are studying for the CCIE Datacenter use? Right now we have a few Nexus devices with plans to possibly build out an entire Cisco storage setup and I would like to align myself to be the best candidate for that role.

Any help is greatly appreciated!

QHalo

Subscribe to this webcast for this weekend. They're going to start listing out the associated items with the certification and it's supposed to include a book list as well.

CCIE Data Center Bootcamp Product Pre-order

If I was to come up with a quick list, I'd say this would be a few.

Amazon.com: NX-OS and Cisco Nexus Switching: Next-Generation Data Center Architectures (Networking Technology) (9781587058929): Kevin Corbin, Ron Fuller, David Jansen: Books
Amazon.com: I/O Consolidation in the Data Center (9781587058882): Silvano Gai, Claudio DeSanti: Books
Amazon.com: Cloud Computing: Automating the Virtualized Data Center (Networking Technology) (9781587204340): Venkata Josyula, Malcolm Orr, Greg Page: Books
Amazon.com: Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) (Data Center): A Complete Reference Guide to the Cisco Data Center Virtualization Server Architecture (Networking Technology) (9781587141935): Silvano Gai, Tommi Salli, Roger Andersson: Books
Amazon.com: Storage Networking Fundamentals: An Introduction to Storage Devices, Subsystems, Applications, Management, and File Systems (Vol 1) (0619472051627): Marc Farley: Books
Amazon.com: Cisco Storage Networking Cookbook: For NX-OS release 5.2 MDS and Nexus Families of Switches (9781466463189): Seth Mason, Venkat Kirishnamurthyi: Books
Amazon.com: Data Center Fundamentals (9781587050237): Mauricio Arregoces, Maurizio Portolani: Books
Amazon.com: Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) (9780931836121): Robert W Kembel: Books
Amazon.com: Data Center Networks and Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) (9781435714243): Silvano Gai: Books
http://www.amazon.com/Storage-Networks-Explained-Application-InfiniBand/dp/0470741430/ref=pd_sim_b_20

Panzer919

I subscribed to the event, reading through their Data Center setup it sounds like it will be an awesome course.

tigerplug

Worth a look -

FabricPath - CCIE DC Nexus Switching Class Preview

kalebksp

In my search for access to lab hardware I came across http://cloudlab.cisco.com. It gives you on demand access to Nexus 7000 and 1000V labs. You have to get a Cisco employee to sponsor you, I got one of the local SEs to sponsor me. The 7K labs are actually the internal Titanium simulator, so somethings don't work (such as creating VDCs), but it's pretty damn slick.

tigerplug

Titanium? ... I wouldn't know anything about that

Panzer919

SE contacted, access granted! Great find