Not necessarily. Many of these VMs support thin provisioning and the individual images dont take too much in terms of resources. ISE is probably the biggest vm in the bunch and running the eval specs isn't so bad.
People have done it in Routergods with old Dell servers off eBay for wayyy cheaper than dedicated hardware. Spending $200-300 in a server that can be reused and repurposed for other studies is an efficient use of money for studying
Not necessarily. Many of these VMs support thin provisioning and the individual images dont take too much in terms of resources. ISE is probably the biggest vm in the bunch and running the eval specs isn't so bad.
With all respect, but a serious environment like 20 nodes needs a beast ! See the VIRL or EVE documentation ... I do have 3 DELL R620's here for my Proxmox cluster....an no ...containers are not really faster (in many aspects the opposite is true). I'm not sure what eve uses for its container ...if docker...than good night.
Also I don't understand why eve doesn't support Proxmox (which is a KVM frontend) and does not support Ubuntu Server newer than 16.04 LTS ...
Anyway, whatever one needs, it costs $$$. I did my Linux stuff on my localhosts hypervisor but was so limited compared to real rack servers. I spent around 5000 $ for my 3 racks and no ... a used 200$ ebay server does not work. Try to use a consumer grade SSD ...most raid controllers wont accepts them. So deeper someone goes so more money he has to spent... sad but true.
At college I did a small project and build a classic 3 tier campus lan + some serial connection with my cisco hardware...heck even the cables costs 200 $.
Perhaps, you can list all the stuff needed for ccnp dc, sec. Not the cheap charly list and not the deluxe edition.
Not necessarily. Many of these VMs support thin provisioning and the individual images dont take too much in terms of resources. ISE is probably the biggest vm in the bunch and running the eval specs isn't so bad.
With all respect, but a serious environment like 20 nodes needs a beast ! See the VIRL or EVE documentation ... I do have 3 DELL R620's here for my Proxmox cluster....an no ...containers are not really faster (in many aspects the opposite is true). I'm not sure what eve uses for its container ...if docker...than good night.
Also I don't understand why eve doesn't support Proxmox (which is a KVM frontend) and does not support Ubuntu Server newer than 16.04 LTS ...
Anyway, whatever one needs, it costs $$$. I did my Linux stuff on my localhosts hypervisor but was so limited compared to real rack servers. I spent around 5000 $ for my 3 racks and no ... a used 200$ ebay server does not work. Try to use a consumer grade SSD ...most raid controllers wont accepts them. So deeper someone goes so more money he has to spent... sad but true.
At college I did a small project and build a classic 3 tier campus lan + some serial connection with my cisco hardware...heck even the cables costs 200 $.
Perhaps, you can list all the stuff needed for ccnp dc, sec. Not the cheap charly list and not the deluxe edition.
Take a look at the devnet and ccnp sec certification pages and blueprint. Ok. After you do that, let me know which VMs are stressing you out that will require thousands of dollars in server costs or where you can't use devnet sandboxes as substitute. If you read anything about the new exams, you'd know you didn't need to take every concentration to get the ccnp title.
I don't see anything on any individual exam list that requires 20+ VMs to learn and test on. That and a lot of the devnet certification topics could be practiced here for free: https://developer.cisco.com/site/sandbox/
How can I use a 200 $ server to train deployment in a serious environment ? I mean, I play around with 26 VM's at home to really feel Ansible and all the other stuff. Normal i7 is to limited.
Or how can I reproduce this kind of a lab on a 200$ server (ok, this example is extreme) ???
Oh, before I forget: Did this cost you only 200$ ???
I used the UCS emulator 100% for my CCNP Data Center. @joelsfood did the same thing I believe as well. On top of that, there's the free sandboxes you can use on Devnet. My CCNP was actually pretty cheap. My CCIE was the expensive part.
I used the UCS emulator 100% for my CCNP Data Center. @joelsfood did the same thing I believe as well. On top of that, there's the free sandboxes you can use on Devnet. My CCNP was actually pretty cheap. My CCIE was the expensive part.
UCS emulator for the win! When I was studying for DC track that is what I used. At the end of the day if you do not see the ROI on investing into your career, then don't pursue it.
It seems that Cisco is focusing much more on the CCNP and CCIE tracks seeing how all the tracks for CCNA were chucked out the window. Honestly, it makes sense bc a lot of network engineer jobs or any job that has networking in it list CCNP as a minimum, at least as far as I’ve seen.
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It seems that Cisco is focusing much more on the CCNP and CCIE tracks seeing how all the tracks for CCNA were chucked out the window. Honestly, it makes sense bc a lot of network engineer jobs or any job that has networking in it list CCNP as a minimum, at least as far as I’ve seen.
That's how I see it as well.
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Doable for sure, no excuses, ABL
Anyway, whatever one needs, it costs $$$. I did my Linux stuff on my localhosts hypervisor but was so limited compared to real rack servers. I spent around 5000 $ for my 3 racks and no ... a used 200$ ebay server does not work. Try to use a consumer grade SSD ...most raid controllers wont accepts them.
So deeper someone goes so more money he has to spent... sad but true.
some other certs...
https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/training-events/training-certifications/certifications/professional/ccnp-security-v2.html
https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/training-events/training-certifications/certifications/devnet/cisco-certified-devnet-professional.html
I don't see anything on any individual exam list that requires 20+ VMs to learn and test on. That and a lot of the devnet certification topics could be practiced here for free: https://developer.cisco.com/site/sandbox/
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https://learningnetwork.cisco.com/community/certifications/ccnp-data-center/dccor/exam-topics
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Did this cost you only 200$ ???
some other certs...
Here's the link to the Devnet labs: https://developer.cisco.com/site/sandbox/
And the UCS emulator: https://community.cisco.com/t5/unified-computing-system/ucs-platform-emulator-downloads-ucspe-4-0-4epe1-ucspe-3-2-3epe1/ta-p/3648177
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Goals: CCNP Enterprise(ENCOR + ENARSI), AWS CSA - Associate, Azure AZ-104, Become better at python, learn docker and kubernetes
Degree: A.S. Network Administration
Pursuing: B.S. in I.T. Web and Mobile Development Concentration
Goals: CCNP Enterprise(ENCOR + ENARSI), AWS CSA - Associate, Azure AZ-104, Become better at python, learn docker and kubernetes
Degree: A.S. Network Administration
Pursuing: B.S. in I.T. Web and Mobile Development Concentration
https://www.cbtnuggets.com/certification-playlist/Cisco/ccna-200-301
Goals: CCNP Enterprise(ENCOR + ENARSI), AWS CSA - Associate, Azure AZ-104, Become better at python, learn docker and kubernetes
Degree: A.S. Network Administration
Pursuing: B.S. in I.T. Web and Mobile Development Concentration
Blog: www.network-node.com
Goals: CCNP Enterprise(ENCOR + ENARSI), AWS CSA - Associate, Azure AZ-104, Become better at python, learn docker and kubernetes
Degree: A.S. Network Administration
Pursuing: B.S. in I.T. Web and Mobile Development Concentration
That's how I see it as well.
Current Certs: CCENT | MCTS | Network+
Currently Working On: Security+
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