From: Luan Nguyen (luan@netcraftsmen.net)
Date: Thu Dec 04 2008 - 23:04:06 ARST
PEC is a treasure :) Usually I search for keyword lab and it has all sort
of things. From SAN-OS to NEXUS 7000, you name it, they have it.
With the spare time, one could do lots more things with those 6500s and Sup
720 10GE. That thing is a 1p2q4T. One could play around with QOS in
there...etc.
Luan Nguyen
Chesapeake NetCraftsmen, LLC.
www.NetCraftsmen.net
-----Original Message-----
From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
Scott M Vermillion
Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2008 6:56 PM
To: 'CCIE Lab'
Subject: RE: OT: GOLD Labs On PEC?
Incidentally all, the VSS lab pods are back online and available for either
immediate booking or scheduled booking. I think it's great that Cisco has
something like this and I'd sure love to see more of it (how many of us have
two 6500s w/ Sup 720 10GE VSS in our home labs?!). I would think one way to
encourage Cisco to continue with this type of investment is to make use of
it. Please, if you have any interest in playing around with (admittedly
fairly basic) VSS and have access to PEC, take the time to do this lab.
It's scheduled for four hours but can be completed in half (or less) that
time by a CCIE or CCIE lab candidate with basic proficiency of L2 and L3
EtherChannels, etc. This lab even includes a shared server and a
pod-specific server with VMWare hosts for connectivity testing, etc. It's
way cool - especially given the price!
From: Scott M Vermillion [mailto:scott@it-ag.com]
Sent: Saturday, November 29, 2008 2:34 PM
To: 'CCIE Lab'
Subject: OT: GOLD Labs On PEC?
Howdy all,
Anybody know anything about the Global Online Lab Delivery (GOLD) labs on
Partner Education Connection (PEC)? I used to use PEC fairly often years
back but have only recently begun poking around there again. There was a
very interesting online lab listed and it was only introduced just this
year. Yet every time I try to pick a date to schedule the rack I get the
following error:
"No valid equipments found for the exercise, please contact LabOps
administrator."
I have no idea as to how one might go about contacting the "LabOps
administrator." I seem to recall that at one time they had some really cool
racks available and I never had any trouble scheduling one. Just curious if
anybody else has recent experience with these?
Just for whatever it's worth, here is the description of the lab I was
interested in:
"The purpose of this lab is to introduce the student to the concept of VSS,
understand the conversion process, and to allow them to gain an appreciation
of the benefits that VSS will bring to the rest of the network. Additional
labs are also available to help understand advanced VSS concepts such as VSS
ISSU, VSS troubleshooting commands & Service module integration."
Looking at the topology and the steps involved, it looks like you would gain
a fairly good grasp of actually deploying a VSS. It was estimated to be 240
minutes in duration. All very interesting if actually available.
Cheers all,
Scott
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