Re: OT: New lab v4 assesor at Cisco site and Lab beta exam at

Try Mock Labs from any vendor and IPX is giving one mock lab free of
charge... I have dell cor2duo 2.0 with 4 GB of ram, my laptop was dying when
i load lab in windows, performance hit was 95-100% only with initial configs
and it was left with no power to do any thing serious.
I have moved to Linux (Ubuntu) and without any tweaks i can load all 14
devices (IE) and running upto OSPF+EIGRP+RIP on all of these and performance
hit is 60 - 70%. Until now have not tried BGP on 14 devices so end result is
not clear. But i hope if i can compile kernel and do some Tweaking i can
bring down the utilization to much lower values.

BTW, i am using 64 bit OS and my laptop by design can access 3.2 GB of total
4.0 GB ram, my all devices are 3725 (which is quite
processing intensive IOS), if i replaced few devices with 29xx devices it
will be much faster. But until now i am satisfied with my experience.

On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 12:17 PM, Nickelby Thane
<nickelby.thane_at_gmail.com>wrote:

> Try Linux. It really helps when it comes to memory management. I used to
> run
> a full CCIE lab topology on Linux without much problems.
>
> As far as v4 is concerned, IPX has updated their workbooks vol.1 to include
> these changes.
> INE has add on videos on MPLS and Security on their CoD/wbs.
> And I always save the best for last, Narbik's v2.0 which is coming out very
> very soon will also cover this in depth.
>
> As for the assessor labs, I have 0 knowledge on it so I really cannot
> comment on it :-)
>
> As for the CCIE R&S Beta examination, you can schedule it via PearsonVUE's
> website AFAIK. Perhaps the others here will have more info.
>
> --
> Warmest regards,
> Nickelby Thane
> Personal Blog : http://nthane.blogspot.com
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>
> On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 4:56 PM, Rob Clav <robclav_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi Folks,
> >
> > after two unsuccesfuls R&S lab v3 exams(Advice: You know if you are ready
> > or
> > not), now I'm preparing the 3rd attempt in order to pass v4 R&S LAB.
> > Now I'm cutting down the expenses using more dynamips, the problems is
> > that I'm not able to run 13th devices running with an acceptable
> > performance
> > even using more than 4 Gb of RAM. I already applied all the performance
> > improvements like "IOS ghost" and so on. I'm thinking move to LINUX. But
> > any
> > advice will be really apreciated.
> >
> > By the other hand, I was using the IE materials for v3 and they are
> > fantastics, but there's nothing for v4 like mpls or I'm wrong. In
> addition
> > of that, I saw at Cisco that the cisco lab assesors tests have been
> remove
> > from the web, and replaced for a simulation of the new exam
> > structure (troubleshooting part and configuring part) taking 9 hours. Do
> > you
> > know how to buy the v4 assesors at CISCO site?? I saw like bootcamps
> > with the assesor bundles but says something like contact with a external
> > trainning company for contract them. Any experience related?
> >
> > Finally, do you have the link for taking the v4 lab beta exam ?
> >
> > Many thanks,
> > RobClav
> >
> >
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