This post will be continuously updated with my short notes under each concept. It's not meant to be a replacement of the official training materials. I'm just starting out playing with the vRouter Core / open source version and installing it in a VM and set up some networks and firewalls …

Brocade has a beta exam up for BCVRE - Certified vRouter Engineer - which is on the Vyatta software from the company with the same name that Brocade bought last year. There is the free open source core. Download from here: http://vyatta.org/downloads (no you don't have to register). The …

Yay I passed the EX436 Red Hat Enterprise Storage Management ! https://www.redhat.com/wapps/training/certification/verify.html?certNumber=111-207-403&isSearch=False&verify=Verify

Post 1 - https://www.guldmyr.com/red-hat-clustering-and-storage-management-course-objectives/ Where I checked out udev, multipathing, iscsi, LVM and xfs. This post is about getting using luci/ricci to get a Red Hat cluster working, but not on a RHEL machine because sadly I do not have one available for practice purposes. So …

Attending "Red Hat Enterprise Clustering and Storage Management" in August. Quite a few of these technologies I haven't touched upon before so probably best to go through them before the course. Initially I wonder how many of these are Red Hat specific, or how many of these I can accomplish …

This week in the SDN course on coursera there were lots of examples of real use of SDN stuff, for example like the B4 WAN by Google. They got a really interesting and cool interview with the Network Lead at Google - Amin Vahdat. And! They actually put this interview up …

Ever wondered which is the easiest way? Using the "configDefault --all" does not clear everything, for example it doesn't clear: system name, zoning, etc. Setting the switch to AG mode (Access Gateway) - will clear more things as it basically dumbs down the switch, it does not remove the licenses, IP …

Is what I did this week during the SDN Course on Coursera :) Within mininet or with a real OpenFlow capable switch, you can point the switch to use a controller. The controller would figure out all the smart stuff and the switch only does what the controller tells it to …

Halfway now, in week3, and just finished the first programming assignment in the course Software Defined Networking. Quite happy with the course so far, the quizzes are not too hard if you actually listen to the video lectures and after taking Coursera's "Learn to Program: Crafting Quality Code" the python …

Even though I'm on summer holiday I'd squeeze in time for a Software-Defined Networking course on coursera! https://www.coursera.org/course/sdn It's given by a professor from Georgia University. It's still not too late to register, it's only on the second week (until tomorrow Monday 8/7) and …