Beginning of this year, i learned about the Nexus 9000V and I immediately saw the chance to use it for the CCIE DC preparation (and for some programming tests as well, but that’s for a future blogpost). The 9kV is basically a virtual Nexus 9300 that you can run on ESXi, Virtual BOX and KVM (the qcow2 Version is that one you need for GNS3. Here are the pro’s and con’s for the 9000V, because as always, where’s an upside, there’s also a downside. Pros: Free for testing/training use (you do need a 9k…
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And so it begins …
… but before a short flashback into 2007 and the following years: After i left the Telco area to work for a Cisco gold partner, I got the chance to work on my first CCIE (R&S). About two years later, short before my first son was born, this mission was accomplished and i earned my Number (22456). The next years had the main focus on Routing/Switching/MPLS, also when i moved on to a vendor and did a lot of Telco support again it didn’t change a lot. Between working on…