RE: Passed CCIE Storage!! Triple CCIE!

Congrats Rick, nice work.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nobody_at_groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody_at_groupstudy.com] On
> Behalf Of Rick Mur
> Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2010 11:18 PM
> To: Cisco certification
> Subject: Passed CCIE Storage!! Triple CCIE!
>
> After a little over 3 months of intense preparation I passed the CCIE Storage
> lab today! Officially making me a triple CCIE :-D I can't describe how happy I
> am at the moment as it was a very intense wait for the results as this one is
> hand graded, so you don't get the results overnight.
>
> For preparation I used the Cisco Press titles on SAN, the excellent Fibre
> Channel Bench Reference Guide and the ieMentor Storage Workbook and
> Walkthrough Guide.
>
> If you are preparing for storage be sure that you really build up your speed as
> the storage lab is quite complex in terms of questioning as there are usually
> multiple possibilities to solve things and they are very much looking for 1
> specific solution (it's the same in all tracks, but I found that in particular with
> this one).
> They really ask you about the whole blueprint! If you are familiar and
> comfortable with the ieMentor labs you have all the technical knowledge you
> need, just pay very close attention to the tasks and what you are doing.
>
> As of hardware, together with Tyson Scott we build 2 full-scale racks with 3
> MDS switches that we can do about 85-90% of all technologies. I also used
> the ieMentor vRack a couple times to practice a few extra features that we
> didn't have licenses for. That rack unfortunately doesn't hold a Storage
> Services Module (SSM) or Generation 2 linecards (where you have to deal
> with oversubscription).
>
> I'd like to thank Tyson Scott for his support and building and maintaining the
> racks, Roman Rodichev for his excellent workbook and personal
> support/coaching and Antonella Corno for her alltime support on the Cisco
> Learning Network community and the fantastic sessions she teaches almost
> every week.
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Rick Mur
> CCIE3 #21946 (R&S / Service Provider / Storage) Sr. Support Engineer 
> IPexpert, Inc.
> URL: http://www.IPexpert.com
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