With great virtualisation comes great responsibility!

iSCSI, as a storage option, has less performance than fibre channel ie. it is limited to the speed of the HBAs or the network card being used, however it is far cheaper and I can leaverage my existing infrastructure to put in an iSCSI SAN. The problem becomes, in a TCP/IP network, how do I [...]

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§177 · December 11, 2008 · Cisco, Tutorials, VMWare · 1 comment · Tags: , ,


Following on in the series, here is the second subnet masking example.
You have been given the network range 192.168.128.0/24. Your task is to break it down into six networks. The questions you have to answer are, how many hosts on each network, and what are the network IDs and broadcast IDs for each of the [...]

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§170 · December 10, 2008 · Cisco, Tutorials · (No comments) · Tags: , ,


After the other week’s CCENT course, I made a promise to start emailing subnetting examples out. Rather than writing and re-writing the same thing time and time again, I figured I’d put them up here instead.
So, fixed length subnet masking example #1 is this:
You have been given the network range 192.168.128.0/22. Your first task is [...]

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§166 · December 8, 2008 · Cisco, Tutorials · 1 comment · Tags: , ,


Both Cisco and Vmware are planning to join forces and offer combined channel and certification programs for virtual data centre offerings.

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§109 · October 8, 2008 · Cisco, VMWare · (No comments) · Tags: , ,


I have done a fair bit of research into this and I am pretty sure that I have the configurations that are applied to the core routers and switches pretty well nailed! These files are provided as is with no express or implied warranty. Invurted.com is not responsible for any damage caused by using these [...]

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§61 · April 10, 2008 · Cisco, Dynagen, Tutorials · 1 comment · Tags: