Re: Passed CCIE Storage!! Triple CCIE!

Congratulation man, well done.

On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 7:00 AM, Rick Mur <rmur_at_ipexpert.com> wrote:

> Sort of :-) I basically just had no life for 3 months :-)
>
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> --
> 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
> >>
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> > Wouter Prins
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