Passed my CCIE RS

that1guy15 · September 03, 2015, 10:17:59 AM

Ever since I was a baby I dreamed of posting this to networking-forums. I watched all the greats of our group hit this status. Well I did that yesterday in RTP.

CCIE: 50117

Now time to get drunk and smoke a cigar!!

NetworkGroover · September 03, 2015, 10:27:51 AM

Congrats!!!

What's next? (After the copious amounts of drinking and a cigar)

dlots · September 03, 2015, 10:45:09 AM

NICE!!!!
I am filled with envy now

Hurry up and update your certs :-D

that1guy15 · September 03, 2015, 10:53:38 AM

Thanks guys.

Next is going deeper into DC. SDN, Automation and Virtual networking. Im about 90% sure my CSR lab at home is gonna get blow out and OpenStack and NSX will be installed PDQ.

Now if I just knew someone who could get me some Arista gear and CloadVision i could churn some sick blog post!!

VCP-NV is on the radar as its a quick hit and a good intro into virtual networking. Not sure if I can stomach another certs this year though.

icecream-guy · September 03, 2015, 10:54:17 AM

congrats, good to see all that hard work pay off.

EOS · September 03, 2015, 11:28:49 AM

DAMN!!! Congratulations!!!!

srg · September 03, 2015, 11:40:19 AM

Congratulations!

deanwebb · September 03, 2015, 11:50:21 AM

Well done, good sir! Well done!

SofaKing · September 03, 2015, 12:40:30 PM

Congrats!!!

NetworkGroover · September 03, 2015, 12:46:41 PM

Quote from: that1guy15 on September 03, 2015, 10:53:38 AM
Now if I just knew someone who could get me some Arista gear and CloadVision i could churn some sick blog post!!

Heh, you do know someone - your local Arista rep.

If you want to dig into SDN, yet insist on hardware instead of leveraging vEOS... I'm going to slap you

. The only things you can't really do in vEOS are hardware-specific things tied to the actual ASIC. CloudVision is meant as a turnkey solution for large enterprises - probably a little overkill for a home lab.

Attached is a picture of my desktop at the time of this posting... I'm running MLAG, BGP, VXLAN, bootstrapping the vEOS instances with Zero-Touch Provisioning(ZTP) and then automating configuration with Ansible... all in vEOS, set up in VirtualBox, which GNS3 has a direct hook into. It's marvelous. You could do the same thing on a server and set up the virtual-to-physical connections to tie it into your lab.

SimonV · September 03, 2015, 01:08:21 PM

Congratulations sir, just saw it on the Linkedin!

sergeyrar · September 03, 2015, 01:08:55 PM

Congrats :-)

Actually I passed too

deanwebb · September 03, 2015, 02:27:19 PM

Quote from: sergeyrar on September 03, 2015, 01:08:55 PM
Congrats :-)

Actually I passed too

Congrats to you, too. What's your number?

sergeyrar · September 03, 2015, 03:33:58 PM

Thanks:-)
48876

Reggle · September 03, 2015, 04:09:58 PM

Congrats to both of you!