I'm going to focus on the below things when studying for BANAS: They are based on the current objectives listed on Brocade's page. Brocade Accredited Network Advisor Specialist Exam Topics The Brocade Accredited Network Advisor Specialist exam has these objectives: Product Features Demonstrate knowledge of Brocade Network Advisor product features …

Brocade Certified Ethernet Fabric Professional - BCEFP - is available for free right now! I signed up and if you pass it you're in the drawing for a $500 amazon coupon each week/month :) Ethernet Fabric you say? "As a Brocade Certified Ethernet Fabric Professional, you must be able to demonstrate knowledge …

Finally got around to start preparing the last certificate/accreditation - BANAS to complete the Brocade Data Center Track (ok, not last. There are plenty more!). It looks like it's an accreditation showing that the taker can do some basic tasks in Brocade Network Advisor (BNA). This used to be a …

Update! If you view this blog on an a mobile device with the right user agent (and apparently very few of you do that) there's now very little white space wasted! It's not perfect yet but I'm working on it making it nicer. It seems to have some Now about …

Yesterday I upgraded Ubuntu 12.04 LTS to 14.04 devel release. This is not recommended :) I wonder what will happen when 14.04 real is out.. *update: it is out now, so the "-d" in "update-manager -d" is no longer necessary? How to? Just run "update-manager -d" and click …

Finally got fed up with the Xperia Active (ST17i or satsuma) - couldn't update anything because all the space was used up and it was rebooting when I wasn't touching it. Solution? Install Cyanogenmod! Cyanogenmod's wiki has a good overview of how to get it installed. Basically you reinstall the operating …

Spoke a bit with some people in the Brocade stand at HP Discover in Barcelona. The open source / core http://www.vyatta.org/download will be kept, but could not get any commitment to what will happen to it or if they will update it. The 5400 (VSE, 6.6 …

Trying out Arch Linux on a Lenovo T400! First step after getting the T400 Dual Core Centrino 2.26GHz 4GB RAM: replace the 160GB spinning rust to a 120GB Samsung 840. Very easy to take out the old disk and put the new SSD in the carrier. https://wiki.archlinux …

https://command.io is up for public beta now. It is a page from where you can manage your servers online in a pretty web interface. It uses ssh - you need to allow commando.io's server to ssh into your server. You can specify with which user, which port and …

For training these I set up networks. Many. Drawing the networks first in LibreOffice Draw and then setting them up with virtual machine templates and LAN segments. The exam I took in October and because it was a beta exam the results aren't out until December :) The BCvRP has the …