Sort of :-) I basically just had no life for 3 months :-)
-- Regards, Rick Mur CCIE3 #21946 (R&S / Service Provider / Storage) Sr. Support Engineer IPexpert, Inc. URL: http://www.IPexpert.com On 5 aug 2010, at 08:18, Wouter Prins wrote: > Wow Rick! > > Congrats!! Are your days counting 48 hours? ;) > > On 5 August 2010 05:17, Rick Mur <rmur_at_ipexpert.com> wrote: >> 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 >> >> >> Blogs and organic groups at http://www.ccie.net >> >> _______________________________________________________________________ >> Subscription information may be found at: >> http://www.groupstudy.com/list/CCIELab.html >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > > > > -- > Wouter Prins > wp_at_null0.nl Blogs and organic groups at http://www.ccie.netReceived on Fri Aug 06 2010 - 23:00:41 ART
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